On Mar 6 20:48, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Well, call it objections... I can't quite see the benfit of mkswap and > >the fsck resp. mkfs backends in the Cygwin distro. You know what will > >happen, don't you? We have already people once in a while asking if > >Cygwin can access, say, ext2 filesystems, but these tools add a new type > >of confusion, along the lines of "I created a swap (bfs, minix) > >partition but I can't mount it in Cygwin. Cygwin is bOrked." Do we > >really want that? > > I hear your point, but how much must we oversimplify things for those > end-users that don't know what their doing? We already have e2fsprogs; > did that contribute to this problem, or is it just that people always > think Cygwin can do everything that Linux can (don't we wish!)?
Maybe. I forgot about e2fsprogs. Oh well, if it helps anybody... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
