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From: Martin Miedema <martin.miedema@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot
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Martin Miedema wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD 
> partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba 
> won't do the trick)
>
> I read a couple of things after some googling about CrossFS which 
> basically should be a UFS driver for windows. Unfortunately all these 
> articles / posts are from 2001 / 2002 and the link that's in them no 
> longer works: http://crossfs.bizland.com
>
> Does any one know if this project still exists? and if not if there is 
> any other alternative to use?
>
> Martin.
>
>

FFS driver is doing the trick perfectly, it took a couple of reboots 
before I got it to work (only used hibernation in Windows since I 
installed FreeBSD so Windows didn't see the partition yet.)

I haven't tried UFS2tools.sourceforge.net yet, but I will definitely try.

Thanks every one for the great help :-)