X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=WRjEgt2LAF+MXxSF f/PoCHLWWjI5sUF/sWafKg2lkLgZfOVGk2h2AKmW8ZMx+H/Gdpwfey7MqJlTudDu QYMhEz3kzqoTHhKL07oH0BVl9M5WmoMQyBwZwZDbcFGA2KNgJRH0z8b0JXH0OOdq qyPFwCFjMTd5mZV5vTvejGXvtGI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=XuLObyOZB2ddCcag7/HBIs cI60o=; b=OL7Jj2QkZ2hEhdvpEKKbwHaKec6c92E0x+3E0QaDp0WhPqnuWlJwGy Lk/5t6pLWyUe6BsDuGd3oz0DD/Q9ttiJwntYZM2RK3XVdF+zXlXP2QBiVeMLKRMC XVy0hk4ir05kJ/FSUoVG8rsASYqzdIH2vwzO8xYemG1J8nXcwWmYA= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*f:sk:AE93914, H*i:sk:AE93914, young X-HELO: mail-lf0-f41.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=R9j4+avOqMxWlIIhjDZEfvJbyg5XVF5LXIurevWRj1s=; b=RudWOy/D+to7FwX9u/W5Rwa5FAgZHePEoV7VBQYIJYgAlmcTVK/C4SrnmX/vYKeDVv Ua/joZ3Sc2PQJf8dTu9CyWAX7jp/LasyaW1deo2Hfdji4NWOIUwpIFH5Gdcf8YvKf2it 12MuaehdH73p5QWdT8+MXN+hLb7v/2L2bS+DiCtfmYY9o8FqXxgTqSJ1S4BRsZv61YCW I8Ww/PtCRuz/lJyI8GBWVU2U2e+k2ZuMYkfEdPjoer90Se4iY3SRjUfm2xgA3IQ3SmeJ 3jiFtzSfLJ3+o5HWnRNcKj/MEakQEBC9PHo1D8NsvxIffsNPPMh10FpGP+LNVdh9wUXI W0QQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FWF1TzDX+19QMm8fYaGxgmHP6cZbsWTRtPbXwwQEERUO9DImW/LGuq6oT8REQ7nVqC4FHVlbthWpasVig== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.201.129 with SMTP id z123mr4539002lff.140.1463087301925; Thu, 12 May 2016 14:08:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <158047847 DOT 671826 DOT 1463062600325 DOT JavaMail DOT yahoo DOT ref AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <158047847 DOT 671826 DOT 1463062600325 DOT JavaMail DOT yahoo AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:08:21 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin? From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u4CL8oHq028162 On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the external harddrive.) > > …the e2fsprogs package isn’t going to get you a Windows kernel driver for ext3 filesystems, so you aren’t going to be able to mount the formatted filesystem under Windows. All you can do with e2fsprogs is write a fresh filesystem onto a block device and then run things like tune2fs to modify it in place. > > Cygwin generally leaves low-level filesystem issues up to the OS. The only filesystems Cygwin actually provides are virtual ones like /dev and /proc. > > I think you should be looking at something like Paragon ExtFS for Windows instead: > > https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/ Personally, I use https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ and have had good results -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple