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

[David S. <Dav...@by...>]

<quote who="Sam Liddicott">
> 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

See my previous post. I've already solved the problem. But to answer your
question: mount told me that there was no valid superblock, and 'fdisk -l 
/dev/cobd1' output nothing. But no worries, I've got it working now. It
mounts properly and fdisk -l gives valid output. All is well!

--Dave