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ext2 filesystem?

Started by klipp, 2008.02.24, 22:01:25

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klipp

I've downloaded both ext2-os2.ifs and ext2_240. Reading the documentation included with both, it looks like neither is safe to use with eCS-2.0!  Is this correct?
   I only need the ability to copy files from  Linux partitions into eCS partitions (read only) while booted in eCS.
Thanks for any suggestions.

klipp
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Saijin_Naib

I began to look through the documentation, why do you think it wont be safe for use with eCS 2.0?

klipp

Hi Saijin_Naib. Reading the readme.txt in EXT2FS_20070118 (which i believe is the newest) it states that it will "hang" any os2-eCS version using LVM! and that it crashes using FS_MOUNT and with this version those problems remain unresolved.
  klipp
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Saijin_Naib

Ahh, okay, I grabbed the 2.40 version. Is the ext driver still under development? Maybe you can cross your fingers and hope the person who is maintaing it releases a LVM-compatible one that maybe supports ext3/ext4 :P

klipp

From what little information I've been able to obtain, it looks like the project is "Dead Meat"! I'm hoping someone has come up with a way around these problems.
  Thanks for you're response.

klipp
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Pete

Hi

Maybe your best way around this problem is to copy the files from ext2 disk to fat32 disk where they will be accessible from quite a few os's once a fat32 driver is installed in the os.

Regards

Pete