But Winders has Woims (was: Re: [plug] APC Magazine September)

[Adam Ashley]

Acutally it is. I use it for my usb harddrive. didnt want to rely on a 
fat partition to hold my data so formatted it ext3, cept sometimes i do 
need to connect it to a windows system. so a small fat partition on the 
end of the drive contains the software from the apc cd works really 
well.

plug the drive in.
browse to the fat partition run installer
run software's manager to map the partition to a drive letter
access disc just like any windows drive
use the wizard to safely remove the drive with no data corruption
next time need to access it on that box just plug it in and it 
automatically remaps to the same drive letter

Adam

On 2003.08.21 19:34, Paul Arch wrote:
> Hi Harry,
> 
>  If its the utility I am thinking of, the ext2 partition isnt
> 'browsable' or
> mounted all the time, I think you need to explicitly run the program
> to look
> at your ext2 filesystem.
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
>  Paul
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry McNally" <harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:35 PM
> Subject: But Winders has Woims (was: Re: [plug] APC Magazine
> September)
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:13:48 +0800 "Daniel Pearson"
> <gpearson at iinet.net.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > There is also a program on the CD, that allows access to ext2
> partitions
> > > from a Windows install.
> >
> > Call me Mr Paranoid if you like, but isn't it a bit silly exposing
> your
> > secure Linux partitions to every virus and worm that Windows
> "accomodates"
> ?
> > Or do the mal-meisters write Linux FS access methods into their
> payloads
> > anyway ?
> >
> > All the best
> > Harry
> >
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