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From: "Martin" <mgainty AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How  to access a Linux partition
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:57:35 -0700
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Andrew et. al:
I especially like the work done at http://jcifs.samba.org/
for SMB access to all drives Linux ,NTFS or remote
The only quandary is I wanted to stay with C for Raw Speed
hmmmm...
Thanks to all for the invaluable suggestions,
Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Markebo" <andrew DOT markebo AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: How to access a Linux partition


> / "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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