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Subject:  Re: Mounting EXT2FS as Windows filesystem
Date:  Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:58 +0800
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On 2009-5-18 20:24, Kelly Jones wrote:
> I just did:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.fs bs=10000 count=10000
> /usr/sbin/mke2fs.exe test.fs
>
> to create an EXT2FS.
>
> Question: how do I mount this so that Windows sees it as a regular
> filesystem?
>
> My goal is to create something that's both a single file and also a
> filesystem. Reason: Mozy backup encrypts files but not filenames. If I
> have a single file that's also a filesystem, I can just back that up
> and filename encryption is automatic.
>
> I tried doing this w/ ZIP files. Windows Explorer recongizes these as
> "folders", but many Windows apps don't.
>

I've been using TrueCrypt volumes for years, it has win32 and linux 
versions (maybe Mac and more?), the volume image is portable, though 
encryption isn't my purpose, but it's a valuable add. However you can't 
disable encryption.

And, there is ext2fs IFS driver, see http://www.fs-driver.org/

Both TrueCrypt and Ext2fs IFS driver don't support mountpoint directly.

Lenik


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