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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:18:46 +0100
From:      Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reading files from win
Message-ID:  <20011010151846.C1834@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011009085945.C27344@netapp.com>; from boshea@netapp.com on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:59:45AM -0700
References:  <000c01c14b11$f07c74e0$1198e693@kolej.vslib.cz> <20011009085945.C27344@netapp.com>

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On 09.10-08:59, brian o'shea wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Vana wrote:
> > hi,
> > is there any utility that can read a bsd FS from win/dos?
> > thank you
> 
> None that I have heard of.  If it's really important that you access the
> filesystem from Windows and you have a lot of CPU and memory to spare,
> you could run VMware [1] on Windows with FreeBSD running in a virtual
> machine.  It's kind of a round-about way to do it, but it would probably
> work.

don't think so, you still won't be able to read the BSD file system as vmware
does not host this in native (NTFS/FAT/FAT32 . . .) file system as far
as i am aware.  it uses a single large file to emulate (much like loopback
image) or a disk partition (same a multi-boot).

p.s.	not actually run it on win so i could be wrong but that's my
	understanding

you can, however, use ftp or other network transport between the file
systems - perhaps that would be enough?

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