Re: [coLinux-users] Hot plugged drives: was: Problem to start coLinux and to delete old services

[danny s. <ori...@gm...>]

On 01/01/06, Joe Wells (reverse mailbox letters only for non-public
replies) <sl...@bl...> wrote:
> danny staple <ori...@gm...> writes:
> > I simply mount them, and unmount them as needed - its tedious, but
> > works.
>
> How do you find out which volume number Windows is using? Where do you lo=
ok?  Is there a way to find this out from a program without using the GUI?

I read the wiki - have a look here:
http://wiki.colinux.org/cgi-bin/Partitions. I use the dmdiag method
myself. The only problem, as I mentioned, is that if you unplug, and
then plug a device back in (for example a USB hard drive), it will be
on a different volume number.

> > I also forgot to mention (probably important) that as these are old
> > disks from an old server, stuck into a USB2 caddy, they are either
> > ext2fs or reiserfs partitions, which windows won't touch.
>
> Ah!  The important point is that they are a filesystem type that
> Windows does not understand.

Yes.

> Does anyone know a way to prevent Windows from automatically mounting
> a file system type it does understand (e.g., FAT32)?  I'd like to be
> able to use this method for pocket USB drives that are also mountable
> under Windows.

I wander if a device that windows treats as "disabled" could be safely
mounted under colinux - and if that would extend to other hardware..
Probaby not. It may be worth experimenting on a non-critical system,
and a non-critical drive that has been backed up if need be.
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