ext? as fat or ntfs?

[der.hans]

Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so:

> On Sat 18 July 2009 12:05:51 am der.hans wrote:
>> Am 17. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Ryan Rix so:
>>> If you don't have admin rights, there's no way.
>>> Outside of that, you could, mayhaps, use ext2IFS, with a lot of hacking.
>>
>> Can ext2ifs be run with autorun or single click type of thing? It requires
>> admin access? I hope it does :).
>
> It does. And it's a kmod+reboot type install, iirc.

Oi. Yeah, a kernel module is probably out.

> In general, if you want the ext partition to show up on the system as a
> seperate drive, you will have to install a system module. There's no real way
> around it. and that requires a reboot.

I don't care if ext$whatever shows up as a seperate partition, but I do
wan the files to somehow be available for read/write. Making them
available via samba share is fine.

> If you are just looking to attach to disk images, you could use explore2ext or
> some similar tool, i forget the name, which is just an explorer-like tool that
> you can attach to ext disk images.

ltools looks most promising from what I found last night.

http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html
http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools/ltools.html

Hmm, Virtual Volumes looks interesting and is from the guy who did
explore2fs and one of hte ext2ifs projects.

http://www.chrysocome.net/virtualvolumes

http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/ <-- see links to other drivers section

http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/#ext2fsd

http://uranus.chrysocome.net/linux/ext2ifs.htm
http://www.fs-driver.org/

> what about QEMU instead of VirtualBox. With a minimal amount of hacking qemu
> can get networking (and thus samba) working on a minimal GNU/Linx. LFS?
> Debian?

Yeah, qemu should be lighter weight than VirtualBox.

> Windows tool calle QemuManager can set up everything in GUI for you, and make
> setting up the networking a breeze.

Cool.

My goal is that the drive get stuck in and just magically mount the data
off the free and open partition.

ciao,

der.hans
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