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From: | Tony Richardson <ar63 AT evansville DOT edu> |
Subject: | Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS? |
Date: | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:46:01 +0000 (UTC) |
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Public Mailing Lists <lists <at> lists.cichon.com> writes: > I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. > This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called > Ext2 IFS for Windows. > > Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount > this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin uses symbolic links, > permission flags, upper/lower-case filenames etc. that are stored on > this file-system? Cygwin works fine with it. It looks like a regular Windows filesystem, however. Symlinks, perms, and upper/lower-case are not supported because IFS does not support them. (See the IFS FAQ.) Tony Richardson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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