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Mounting ext2/ext3 file systems?
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 Mounting ext2/ext3 file systems? - Jan. 30, '04, 5:54:47 PM
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MP
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I' m setting my laptop up for dual-boot (Windows XP and
linux and/or FreeBSD) and in the process, I' m going to
create an ext3 partition for /home . I' m assuming there' s
no direct way to mount that filesystem inside SFU (although
I' d be delighted to be wrong on that!). I' ve come across a
few references to ' ext2fs anywhere' from paragon software,
which purports to support ext2 and ext3 in this manner.
Is there any likelihood that this would work via SFU? Or
is there a simpler way to achieve this? It would be so
useful to be able to share a single /home between SFU and
linux/bsd/whatever, but I' ve not really come across any
reports of people actually doing it...
Mike
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RE: Mounting ext2/ext3 file systems? - Jan. 30, '04, 7:23:18 PM
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markfunk
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The UNIX environment with SFU is called Interix.
It runs on top of Windows and exclusively uses Windows resources. It does not have its own filesystems.
So if you can convince Windows to mount these filesystems than Interix should be able to access them.
Personally, I haven' t heard of this.
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RE: Mounting ext2/ext3 file systems? - Jan. 30, '04, 7:30:12 PM
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MP
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I know that Interix runs on top of the windows kernel,
bypassing the ' win32' layer (whatever that is!) -- which
is supposedly why it' s so much better than cygwin (it' s
not case-insensitive, for instance); I guess it' s
reasonable to assume that any mounting of filesystems
ought to be going on at the kernel level, so I guess it
makes sense that it ought to be transparent to Interix
in that case. Of course, what I was really hoping was
that there would be some way of mounting ext2/ext3 file
systems within Interix (mount -t ...), but I guess that' s
a little too much to hope for!
Thanks for the reply!
Mike
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