Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:07:42 -0500 From: Duane Winner <duanewinner@att.net> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP Message-ID: <1076706461.45717.10.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <24795.208.247.148.16.1076624911.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com> References: <24795.208.247.148.16.1076624911.squirrel@webmail.alienwebshop.com>
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I look into this issue an average of once a year, because it's always
been my dream to have a dual boot machine in which XP can read/write my
UFS/ext2/etc. partitions and FreeBSD/Linux/etc. can read/write my NTFS
partitions.
I've seen a handful of 3rd party software out there that seems to come
close, but I've never actually tried any of them because I get the
impression that they are buggy, not fully-developed, or worse, abandoned
projects.
My current, (and actually quite happy) compromise is to have XP on FAT32
(because *nix can't write to NTFS {yet}), and then do my schleping while
booted into FreeBSD. I backup my XP data from FreeBSD, and if I need to
transfer files to XP, FreeBSD can write to that partition.
I mount /dev/ad0s1 and make a sybolic link in my home directory to what
would be C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents.
So when I do an "ls /home/myname/windata", I will see my XP "My
Documents". I can delete, create and edit files through this, too.
Works pretty nicely for me. I'm not crazy about the FAT32 compromise
(I've always been a stickler for NTFS security), but for a single user
box, I'm willing to compromise. Wouldn't dream of doing this on a
production box, though.
Regards,
DW
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:28, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> I researched this on the web but found nothing relevant or useful.
>
> Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs)
> partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)?
>
> Samba, which is open source and free, isn't a solution because it
> requires a working [freebsd] operating system and running a daemon.
>
> Thanks mucho diGiornio,
>
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