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From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can a FreeBSD partition be mounted under dos?
Date: 25 Feb 1996 11:44:31 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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Message-ID: <4gpi2v$bri@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <4gp8aa$577@sulla.cyberstore.ca>,
Wikket <labatte@netbistro.com> wrote:
>I would like to be able to mount my bsd partition while I am running dos,
>is there a utility to make this possible?
If you have your BSD partition on a Linux EXT2 filesystem, then yes, it
is possible. FreeBSD supports the reading and writing of EXT2
filesystems, or so I've been told. I personally prefer Linux.
Check out ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2/
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ncftp>more ext2tool_1_1.lsm
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Title: Ext2 tools
Version: 1.1
Entered-date: 9 January 1996
Description: A collection of DOS programs that allow you to
read a Linux ext2 file system from DOS.
Keywords: DOS, ext2
Author: ct@login.dknet.dk (Claus Tondering)
Maintained-by: ct@login.dknet.dk (Claus Tondering)
Primary-site: login.dknet.dk /pub/ct
287706 ext2tool_1_1.zip
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
287706 ext2tool_1_1.zip
Original-site:
Platform: PC with 386 or better
Copying-policy: GPL
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Also, if you are running OS/2, there are tools available to allow you
to mount your Linux filesystem.
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Title: ext2-os2
Version: 0.7
Entered-date: 27JAN96
Description: Linux ext2fs Installable File System driver (IFS) for OS/2.
Makes Linux ext2fs partitions appear as new drive letters that can be
seamlessly accessed as "normal" OS/2 drives (both read/write). This is
a port based on the Linux ext2 0.5b kernel code (linux 1.2.1 sources).
Keywords: ext2fs, OS/2, WARP, IFS, file system
Author: willm@ibm.net (Matthieu WILLM)
Maintained-by: willm@ibm.net (Matthieu WILLM)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
522177 ext2_07b.zip
Alternate-site: ftp-os2.nmsu.edu /os2/diskutil
522177 ext2_07b.zip
Platform: OS/2 2.x, OS/2 WARP
Copying-policy: GPL
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Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
Linux: The better choice.