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Subject: Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
From: Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist AT gmail DOT com>
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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

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