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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:42:26 -0600
From: Elliott Wilcoxon <elliott AT wilcoxon DOT org>
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To: ML CygWIN <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Really big files?
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I recall at least one recent version with WinXP support, so I'd expect 
that it does support NTFS.

Elliott Wilcoxon

Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:

>>From: Brian Dessent
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:19 PM
> 
> 
>>Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>
>>>=== Session Log
>>>$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/todds
>>
>>Just a completely random guess here:  Is 'physicaldrive2' an active
>>system drive?  IIRC there are some parts of windows that cannot be read
>>by anything but the kernel itself, such as the SAM database (or
>>something along those lines.)  If this is the case then you'd have to do
>>the image when the partition is not active.  I don't know how or if
>>tools like Ghost get around this.
>>
>>Brian
> 
> 
> Minimal info addition:
>  Symantec's ghost.exe is a AFAIK DOS application, with all the
> implications - don't know more about it (does it handle NTFS?).
> PowerQuest's "ghost" (i.e. Drive Image) does some 'magic' by booting a
> temporary disk image - for creating the backup (this disk image can be
> rebuilt using the installed software. Does understand NTFS and at least
> 'knows about' Linux).
> 
> 
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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