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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:12:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin on ext2
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:55:13PM -0400, e-bone wrote:
> Just curious,
> has anyone tried to run cygwin on an ext2 partition using
> one of the ext2 filesystem drivers available for windows ?
> 
> like the one from paragon e.g.
> 
> i imagine there is nothing to gain, since cygwin was designed for
> fat/ntfs, but i thought maybe extra functionality could be provided
> if cygwin had a "run on ext2" functional mode.

I'm not aware of any extra functionality on ext2 useful for Cygwin,
which isn't already provided by ntfs in one way or another.

Corinna

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