<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks for the link! I did see those, but don't look like they support writing to "special" files.<br><br>My filesystem is actually just a ramdisk image with device files in it. Very lean implementation. I figure if i could even get windows to write to a device file i can make a driver to handle whatever madness it throws at it.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> LUGOD's general discussion mailing list <vox@lists.lugod.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, March 4, 2010 4:05:32 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [vox] Mount EXT filesystem in windoze and access /dev<br></font><br>
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:58:22PM -0800, Adam Yergovich wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>> <br>> I have a filesystem gadget setup on my linux device and it happily mounts<br>> in windoze or linux and recognizes a FAT filesystem. I'd really like if i<br>> could get write access to the /dev files from the outside world though and<br>> was thinking if there was perhaps some way that i could get windows to<br>> mount a ext filesystem. Anyone have any recommendations for how i might<br>> make windows and linux talk?<br><br>It's possible. I used something once, a long time ago, to fetch all of my<br>music from an external drive that I had been using on Linux (hence ext2)<br>so I could listen to it at work (Windows XP).<br><br>It was _probably_ ext2ifs, but I forget. Google showed me this page<br>when I searched for "ext2 windows",
which looks to be useful:<br><br><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows">http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows</a></span><br><br><br>PS - is /dev on your Linux box a real filesystem, or is it devfs?<br>(Man, I'm getting rusty. Hopefully someone with half a brain can reply<br>with a more useful answer ;) )<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>-bill!<br>_______________________________________________<br>vox mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:vox@lists.lugod.org" href="mailto:vox@lists.lugod.org">vox@lists.lugod.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox">http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox</a></span><br></div></div>
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