[ug-bosug] Mounting ext3 partition from OpenSolaris

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:04 PM, USM Bish <bish at airtelmail.in> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Vijay HN <Hn.Vijay at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is  readonly support. Please see the following blog for details
>> http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap/date/20070716
>>
>
> Thanks Moinak (for the real work), thanks Pradhap (for the blog and
> publicity) and thanks Vijay (for leading me there) ...
>
> I managed to install things flawless. Only that all the binaries were
> put in /usr/bin (not /usr/sbin as expected)
>
> -bash-3.2# which prtpart
> /usr/bin/prtpart
> -bash-3.2#
>
> The mounting of the linux partition went flawless, and I could read
> into the ext3 partition just fine. But then, it somehow did not work
> for my NTFS partition:
>
>
> -bash-3.2# prtpart /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0 -ldevs
>
> Fdisk information for device /dev/rdsk/c1d0p0
>
> ** NOTE **
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p0      - Physical device referring to entire physical disk
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p1 - p4 - Physical devices referring to the 4 primary partitions
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p5 ...  - Virtual devices referring to logical partitions
>
> Virtual device names can be used to access EXT2 and NTFS on logical partitions
>
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p1 IFS: NTFS
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p2 Solaris x86
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p3 BSD/386,386BSD,NetBSD,FreeBSD
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p4 DOS Extended
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p5 Linux swap
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p6 Linux native
> /dev/dsk/c1d0p7 Linux native
>
> -bash-3.2#
>
> -bash-3.2# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d0p1:d /mnt/windows
> mount: /dev/dsk/c1d0p1:d is not a DOS filesystem.

   PCFS is only for FAT. Execute this:

   mount -F ntfs /dev/dsk/c1d0p1 /mnt/windows

Regards,
Moinak.

> -bash-3.2#
>
> Thnaks again to all of you ...
>
> Bish
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