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

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

It's probably better to access it at a lower level of abstraction than "z:".
Who knows how long that will stick?

--Blake
pb...@ta...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Smith" <Dav...@by...>
To: <col...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [coLinux-users] Reading ext3 drive in CoLinux on WinXP Pro


> I actually got it to work by using \DosDevices\z: since evidently Windows
> recognized the drive (and I had given it a drive letter previously). That
> worked, and it mounted wondefully! Thank you! CoLinux r0x0rz!
>
> <quote who="Blake">
> > 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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