Reading UFS2 from Windows

Kyrre Nygard kyrreny at broadpark.no
Tue May 16 03:23:20 PDT 2006


At 10:40 16.05.2006, dawnshade wrote:
>On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:19, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have an awkward setup right here.
> >
> > I have my first harddrive split into one NTFS partition which runs Windows,
> > and one FAT32 partition which serves as a temporary docking station for all
> > my files which I later secure into my 2nd harddrive running FreeBSD.
> >
> > Can I skip this temporary docking station somehow?
> >
> > I was thinking, since UFS2 is an open specification, it shouldn't be
> > impossible creating a Win32 interface that will let me read and write to
> > one.
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufs2tools
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffsdrv

I'm fine with having this temporary docking station however since it's FAT32,
certain scripts (like rename scripts) make my FreeBSD lock up and freeze.

-- Kyrre



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