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Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?
- From: Tony Richardson <ar63 at evansville dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?
- References: <4332A3CE.90804@lists.cichon.com>
Public Mailing Lists <lists <at> lists.cichon.com> writes:
> I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem.
> This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called
> Ext2 IFS for Windows.
>
> Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount
> this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin uses symbolic links,
> permission flags, upper/lower-case filenames etc. that are stored on
> this file-system?
Cygwin works fine with it. It looks like a regular Windows filesystem,
however. Symlinks, perms, and upper/lower-case are not supported
because IFS does not support them. (See the IFS FAQ.)
Tony Richardson
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