Fw: [coLinux-users] Reading ext3 drive in CoLinux on WinXP Pro

[Blake <pb...@ta...>]

Sourceforge didn't like the included .exe file.  dmdiag can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/dmdiag-o.asp

--Blake
pb...@ta...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blake" <pb...@ta...>
To: "David Smith" <Dav...@by...>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [coLinux-users] Reading ext3 drive in CoLinux on WinXP Pro


> Try
>
> <block_device
>  index=N+2
>  path=\Device\HarddiskVolumeN
>  enabled="true">
> </block_device>
>
> N = 1 to 30
>
> And try to access each cobd device in colinux in some way (mount is
probably
> the easiest way in this case).
>
> Or I found the Win2000 SDK utility "dmdiag" helpful.
>
> Or the Diskpart utility could help:
>
> diskpart
> >list disk
> >select disk N
> >list volume
> >list partition
>
> I've attached dmdiag.exe in case you can't find it on windows' site.
>
> --Blake
> pb...@ta...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Smith" <Dav...@by...>
> To: <col...@li...>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:02 AM
> Subject: [coLinux-users] Reading ext3 drive in CoLinux on WinXP Pro
>
>
> > I installed CoLinux 0.6.1 under WinXP Pro. Worked like a charm, and
boots
> > extremely fast! Now I'm messing with my config.xml to try to get CoLinux
> > to mount my 120Gb IDE ext3-formatted drive. This is a separate drive
than
> > the one Windows XP is installed on, and it has a single ext3 partition.
> > According to the CoLinux docs, CoLinux relies on the host OS to provide
> > logical access to block devices. But if my host OS (Windows) doesn't
> > understand ext3, how can it provide logical access? Here's what I've
tried
> > to no avail in config.xml:
> >
> >   <block_device index="1"
> >     path="\Device\HarddiskVolume1"
> >     enabled="true" />
> >
> >   <block_device index="1"
> >     path="\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1"
> >     enabled="true" />
> >
> >   <block_device index="1"
> >     path="\Device\Harddisk1"
> >     enabled="true" />
> >
> > According to the Windows management console, my drive is "Disk 1", and
it
> > appears as "Healthy (Unknown Partition)".
> >
> > Can anyone shed any light on how I could get CoLinux to recognize my
ext3
> > drive?
> >
> > --Dave
> >
> >
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