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From: Andrew Markebo <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
Subject: Re: How  to access a Linux partition
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 00:41:02 +0200
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/ "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk> wrote:
|> How does Cygwin access a Linux partition?
|> Thank You,
|
| It doesn't. If you want to access Linux ext[23] partitions under Windows you
| will need a filesystem driver for your version of Windows.

Or.. Well there are a couple of alternatives.. ltools (read/write)
     http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools/ltools.html
Explore2fs 
     http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Not yet dos native/drive access, but through a wrapper command.. or
similar.

        /Andy
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