Thomas wrote:
Well, first thanx a lot to all who answered so fast.
Well, yes i meant local access on the same machine, when the MS os is
booted.
I think LTOOLS may be what can help me.
To the statement of Robert:
Microsoft has no incentive to write an ext2 driver, because they want
it to remain as difficult as possible for the two systems to co-exist.
So... Who'd sit down and write such a driver? There's no advantage
from either side of the fence.
Well, most of that is true. But it is my personal experience, that the
lack of a really good working common FS inhibits people that are
lesser techies to convert to Linux. I have known a lot ppl who tried
to use linux and gave up. A big point is because it was too difficult
to access their data from each other OS while they still do not really
know how to use a unix system correctly. I just assumed, that it is
knowingly difficult to write linux driver for the MS filesystems (i
dont consider the exising vfat and ntfs drivers as 'good working'), it
should be a lot easier to write MS driver for the Lin filesystems. But
i agree, the ppl who usually write drivers may have no interest at all
in writing MS code.
Well, thanks for the links, though.
Thomas
David Jackson schrieb:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:03:19AM -0800, David Jackson penned with
great
insight:
Thomas --
Do you mean access a Linux parition on the same box M$ is running on?
It seems to me if there used to me a ready only tool that let you do
that?
Have you tried looking on http://freshmeat.net?
Of couse if your mean located on a different box then the answer is
samba?
David
Okay, yes I'm a moron.
We ALL got to a little "touched in the head" to get involved with
*nix :)
Anyway a quick search on http:/fresmeat.net for "dos filesystem" came up
with:
LTOOLS: The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and
writing
Linux ReiserFS, ext2, and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows,
Solaris, or
Linux.
Here's the freshmeat link:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ltools/?topic_id=860%2C861
And home page:
http://www.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html
Your might also search http://sf.net (sourceforge.net)
David
I dunno if this contains exactly what you were looking for but my elder
son sent me this today (and I quote directly from his note):
although your l337ness prolly already knows..
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/14/1738230.shtml?tid=109&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190
Other than scanning the article I have not tried this stuff from MS..
Mike
