Mounting to freebsd ufs under WinXP

[Duane Winner]

I look into this issue an average of once a year, because it's always
been my dream to have a dual boot machine in which XP can read/write my
UFS/ext2/etc. partitions and FreeBSD/Linux/etc. can read/write my NTFS
partitions.

I've seen a handful of 3rd party software out there that seems to come
close, but I've never actually tried any of them because I get the
impression that they are buggy, not fully-developed, or worse, abandoned
projects.

My current, (and actually quite happy) compromise is to have XP on FAT32
(because *nix can't write to NTFS {yet}), and then do my schleping while
booted into FreeBSD. I backup my XP data from FreeBSD, and if I need to
transfer files to XP, FreeBSD can write to that partition.

I mount /dev/ad0s1 and make a sybolic link in my home directory to what
would be C:\Documents and Settings\myname\My Documents.

So when I do an "ls /home/myname/windata", I will see my XP "My
Documents". I can delete, create and edit files through this, too.

Works pretty nicely for me. I'm not crazy about the FAT32 compromise
(I've always been a stickler for NTFS security), but for a single user
box, I'm willing to compromise. Wouldn't dream of doing this on a
production box, though.

Regards,
DW

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:28, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> I researched this on the web but found nothing relevant or useful.
> 
> Can someone recommend software that lets you mount TO freebsd (ufs)
> partition FROM WITHIN Windows XP Pro SP1 (transparently)?
> 
> Samba, which is open source and free, isn't a solution because it
> requires a working [freebsd] operating system and running a daemon.
> 
> Thanks mucho diGiornio,
> 
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