On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the > > external harddrive.) > > …the e2fsprogs package isn’t going to get you a Windows kernel driver for > ext3 filesystems, so you aren’t going to be able to mount the formatted > filesystem under Windows. All you can do with e2fsprogs is write a fresh > filesystem onto a block device and then run things like tune2fs to modify it > in place. > > Cygwin generally leaves low-level filesystem issues up to the OS. The only > filesystems Cygwin actually provides are virtual ones like /dev and /proc. > > I think you should be looking at something like Paragon ExtFS for Windows > instead: > > https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/
Personally, I use https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ and have had good results -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
