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Subject: Re: Is there a partitioning toll and file system tool in cygwin?
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On 12/05/2016 16:16, Peder Sverdrup wrote:
> Hi,
> I run cygwin on Win10 64-bit. I would like to format an external harddrive with ext3. (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the external harddrive.)
> Problem I have is that I do not find any partitioning or file system tool in cygwin. For instance - I can not find fdisk. Ant not parted.
> Can anybody help?
>
>
> I have also tried to compile fdisk from source - is there a tutorial as to how to compile from source?
>
> Kind regards from a newbie, Peder
>


$ cygcheck -p fdisk.exe |grep -v debuginfo
Found 4 matches for fdisk.exe
util-linux-2.25.2-1 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities 
(installed binaries and support files)
util-linux-2.25.2-2 - util-linux: Collection of basic system utilities 
(installed binaries and support files)

$ cygcheck -p ext3 |grep -v debuginfo
Found 20 matches for ext3
....
e2fsprogs-1.42.12-1 - e2fsprogs: Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities 
(installed binaries and support files)
e2fsprogs-1.42.12-2 - e2fsprogs: Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities 
(installed binaries and support files)
libext2fs-devel-1.42.12-1 - libext2fs-devel: Ext2fs library 
(development) (installed binaries and support files)
libext2fs-devel-1.42.12-2 - libext2fs-devel: Ext2fs library 
(development) (installed binaries and support files)
...


so you need to install the package util-linux and e2fsprogs.



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