Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
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
Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
On May 12, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Peder Sverdrup wrote: > > I would like to format an external harddrive with ext3. Marco’s answer will get you that far. However… > (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/ There are alternatives, but I cannot recommend any from personal experience. I haven’t used Paragon’s Windows products, either, but I have used their NTFS for OS X product, and never had any problems with it. You might also consider going the other way: use NTFS on that backup drive to make Windows (and thus Cygwin) happy, then use fuse-ntfs3g on the Linux side to mount the drive. Either way you go, you’re going to run into semantic mismatches, such as permission mapping problems. That’s unavoidable. > For instance - I can not find fdisk. I don’t know about other extfs drivers for Windows, but Paragon’s includes a disk partitioning and formatting tool. -- 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
Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
On 12/05/2016 16:16, Peder Sverdrup wrote: Hi, I run cygwin on Win10 64-bit. I would like to format an external harddrive with ext3. (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the external harddrive.) Problem I have is that I do not find any partitioning or file system tool in cygwin. For instance - I can not find fdisk. Ant not parted. Can anybody help? I have also tried to compile fdisk from source - is there a tutorial as to how to compile from source? Kind regards from a newbie, Peder $ cygcheck -p fdisk.exe |grep -v debuginfo Found 4 matches for fdisk.exe util-linux-2.25.2-1 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities (installed binaries and support files) util-linux-2.25.2-2 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities (installed binaries and support files) $ cygcheck -p ext3 |grep -v debuginfo Found 20 matches for ext3 e2fsprogs-1.42.12-1 - e2fsprogs: Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities (installed binaries and support files) e2fsprogs-1.42.12-2 - e2fsprogs: Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities (installed binaries and support files) libext2fs-devel-1.42.12-1 - libext2fs-devel: Ext2fs library (development) (installed binaries and support files) libext2fs-devel-1.42.12-2 - libext2fs-devel: Ext2fs library (development) (installed binaries and support files) ... so you need to install the package util-linux and e2fsprogs. -- 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
Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
Hi, I run cygwin on Win10 64-bit. I would like to format an external harddrive with ext3. (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the external harddrive.) Problem I have is that I do not find any partitioning or file system tool in cygwin. For instance - I can not find fdisk. Ant not parted. Can anybody help? I have also tried to compile fdisk from source - is there a tutorial as to how to compile from source? Kind regards from a newbie, Peder -- 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
