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

[Sam L. <sa...@li...>]

David Smith wrote:
> 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?

I've got rhis to work with removable USB hard drives; it would help if 
you said why you thought it wasn't working.

By using: index="1" it would make the coLinux block device that 
represents the disk be /dev/cobd1

What happens when you try and mount /dev/cobd1 ?

Can you do: less -f /dev/cobd1
to see if the partition can even be read from coLinux?

Sam