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Re: can I mount ext2fs on cygwin?


Quoting Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago <marcos@it.uc3m.es>:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 darryl@ipage.pl wrote:
> 
>      > Hi,
>      > 
>      > I don't know if this helps but I have Linux running on 'server'
>      > and win98 on 'ppp' (see note below)
>      > 
>      > Samba links the two - ppp accesses a Samba share 'darryl' (my home directory on server)
>      > >From a bash prompt I can eg;
>      > 
>      > # mount //Server/darryl/public_html/current_project /home/darryl/current_project
>      > 
>      > where /home/darryl/current_project is a folder in my cygwin home directory.
>      > 
>      > There is a post in the archives which questioned the possibility of mounting a floppy with ext2fs
>      > on cygwin. But I gather this isn't what you are trying to.
>      > 
>      > Note: when I installed cygwin from the internet it changed the name of my  win box from 'station' 
>      > to 'ppp' and I had to correct my Network Neighbourhood settings accordingly.
>      > I'd like to change it back but haven't got that igured yet.
> 
> Well, actually that's a good idea, though I only have one PC :( I wanted 
> to mount my local ext2fs partitions on windoze.
> 
> regrds,
> m4c.

Hi,

You might want to take a look at this link found by searching 'ext2fs' in the archives of this list.

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg01611.html

  Regards, Darryl

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