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

[Ananth A]

Great work, Moinak! i shall test it out and let you know how it goes.

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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