Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
Warren Young
wyml@etr-usa.com
Thu May 12 15:00:00 GMT 2016
On May 12, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Peder Sverdrup <psverdrup@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I would like to format an external harddrive with ext3.
Marco’s answer will get you that far. However…
> (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the external harddrive.)
…the e2fsprogs package isn’t going to get you a Windows kernel driver for ext3 filesystems, so you aren’t going to be able to mount the formatted filesystem under Windows. All you can do with e2fsprogs is write a fresh filesystem onto a block device and then run things like tune2fs to modify it in place.
Cygwin generally leaves low-level filesystem issues up to the OS. The only filesystems Cygwin actually provides are virtual ones like /dev and /proc.
I think you should be looking at something like Paragon ExtFS for Windows instead:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows/
There are alternatives, but I cannot recommend any from personal experience. I haven’t used Paragon’s Windows products, either, but I have used their NTFS for OS X product, and never had any problems with it.
You might also consider going the other way: use NTFS on that backup drive to make Windows (and thus Cygwin) happy, then use fuse-ntfs3g on the Linux side to mount the drive.
Either way you go, you’re going to run into semantic mismatches, such as permission mapping problems. That’s unavoidable.
> For instance - I can not find fdisk.
I don’t know about other extfs drivers for Windows, but Paragon’s includes a disk partitioning and formatting tool.
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