Re: [coLinux-devel] conoppix

[Digital I. Inc. <ok...@di...>]

Yeah, your guessing is right.
and you can read a virtual partition ( = just a big file on NTFS)
from NT.
if you formatted it with FAT32, use filedisk.exe. I felt it is stable.
with ext2, use ext2 IFS driver (under development...).

          --- Okajima.


>On Wednesday 07 April 2004 06:25 pm, Digital Infra, Inc. wrote:
>> I have not read whole thread (it is long!),
>> but if what you focus is about writing a loop back partition,
>> I already did it on conoppix.
>>
>> it can write loop back partition on NTFS.
>
>I have not tried it, but considering that the built-in kernel NTFS write 
>support had it's "experimental/dangerous" warnings removed from the help in 
>Andrew Morton's recent 2.6 kernels, I am guessing that it will simply refuse 
>to do anything dangerous, rather than destroying your filesystem... be warned 
>that this advice is probably worth what you paid for it.
>
>Anyhow, my educated guess is that if you create a non-compressed, 
>non-encrypted large file using cygwin dd, filled with /dev/random data 
>instead of /dev/zero (for extra paranoia about any spase-file issues) on an 
>NTFS partition, it's totally safe to use linux's built-in NTFS "write" 
>support and loop-devices to write to it, no captive NTFS required.  I have 
>used this technique to fix unbootable colinux partitions successfully, at 
>least.  I should document this technique in the wiki, I suppose...
>
>> and probably next version of KNOPPIX has "captive",
>> which loads genie NTFS.dll on Linux from c:/windows/system32,
>> so you can write real NTFS, if you have real Windows installed on your C:.
>
>captive NTFS is pretty nifty... makes you wonder about other drivers (I 
>believe there has been some promising experimental work with NT display 
>drivers and X as well).
>
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