Ananth A wrote: > Great work, Moinak! i shall test it out and let you know how it goes. Thanks. Let me know of your feedback.
Regards, Moinak. > > Thanks again, > Ananth > > On 8/23/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> >> As I had mentioned before, a new SVR4 package is now available that >> provides the following features: >> >> * Utility to dump detailed partition table info on x86 platforms >> (prtpart). >> * Ability to read-only mount EXT2FS and NTFS partitions (both* >> primary and extended*). >> * The utilities from e2fsprogs <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/> >> compiled for OpenSolaris. >> * Some of the utilities from ntfsprogs <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/> >> compiled for OpenSolaris. >> >> Download it from http://www.belenix.org <http://www.belenix.org/> >> >> The read-only mount capability is an enhancement of the initial NTFS >> mount <http://mount-ntfs.sourceforge.net/> >> work done by Martin Rosenau. >> >> Essentially the approach is to run an instrumented userland NFS >> server that >> reads raw blocks from a device and interprets them as per the filesystem >> format. >> >> The NTFS support was already present in Martin's work and I modified >> it to >> also suport Ext2FS using libext2fs from e2fsprogs. In addition I have >> done a >> bunch of enhancements to integrate better with the OpenSolaris way of >> doing >> things. So for eg. you can use "mount -F ext2fs ..." instead of having >> to run a >> custom binary. >> _______________________________________________ >> ug-bosug mailing list >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >> > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
