[ug-bosug] Re: Mount and Access NTFS and Ext2FS from Solaris x86

[Moinak Ghosh]

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.
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