Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 17:47, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, May 8, 2006 5:41 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:58, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:56 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:01, Nick Rout wrote:
If your linux filessystem is ext2 or ext3 you can use IFS:
http://www.fs-driver.org/
The way most people do it is to have a small 'port-hole' partition
formatted in vfat which can then be used by both Linux and Windows.
If you disk is fully partitioned you might find using a USB memory
stick convenient.
Otherwise either run 'Captive' by Jan Kratochvil [1] or temporarily
run Windows in a qemu environment and transfer the files to and fro
with the Linux host environment using Samba and Windows using the
Network Neighbourhood. Very convenient, but rather difficult to set
up.
[1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
[2] http://us5.samba.org/samba/
you are back to front, he wanted to access a linux filesystem from
windows, not the other way around.
Option 2 is bi-directional, and you can use any filesystem you like on
the Linux side.
But then don't you end up with the files on the windows side in a qemu
virtual file system, which is just an image file on your linux
partition? Can you tell me how Bernard booted to windows would access
that data?
He can't from a booted windows, but he can if windows is running in a qemu
host by using the Network Neighbourhood on the Windows side and Samba on
the Linux - host - side, because it is possible to make network
connections between the host and and windows in its qemu environment.
ftp is another possibility. iirc, Wesley showed this off some months ago.
I wouldn't recommend that Bernard tries to set this up, because
the 'letter-box' or 'port-hole' vfat file system method is far simpler.
Then I think you missed the point there. He wants to get at his linux
files from windows.
If anyone is using ReiserFS there I some tools too use, although I have
not tried them myself so use at your own risk.
http://yareg.akucom.de/ looks like you can see them though a file browser
or
http://rfsd.sourceforge.net/ which IIRC is a driver so you can view your
files just like its a windows hard drive.
