Some more details about how symlinks behave are attached below.
Robert, I tried ext2ifs but it did not "automount" my USB drive partitions.
Perhaps I should have used cygwin mount,.exe and mounted by hand.
Reik
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ext2fsd and ext2 volume manager problems on Windows XP,
cygwin example.
Problem with symlinks that ext2fsd tries to follow them and fails if the
link target does not exist. In general there also seems to be the
behavior of chasing symlinks, possibly into infinite loops, when it
should not.
Seems like ext2fsd does not know the difference between wanting to look
at the link itself and to follow the link. It does not behave as linux
does.
% 451 > pwd
/cygdrive/e/home/reik
% 452 > ls -l bin
ls: cannot access bin/tardiff: No such file or directory
....
% 453 > ls -l ~/bin/tar #[hit Control-D to get filename completion here,
this works]
tar2tape* tardiff tarhome*
% 453 > ls -l ~/bin/tardiff #[so filename completion worked, but ls -l
will not work
ls: cannot access /cygdrive/e/home/reik/bin/tardiff: No such file or
directory
#Additionally, you can cat a symlink but you cannot "more" it (cygwin):
% 480 > pwd
/cygdrive/e/home/reik/DOCS/xp
% 481 > ln -s ext3 ext2
% 482 > more ext2
Cannot access file E:\home\reik\DOCS\xp\ext2
% 483 > cat ext2
(works)
....
% 483 >
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TNWestTex wrote:
Reik Red wrote:
(trying again, this time without making the mistake of hijacking a thread)
This is a bit OT, but I'm having troubles with ext2fsd (in the form of
"ext2 volume manager") on XP.
It works ok with just reading/writing files from XP onto my ext2/ext3
linux partition,
but I use rsync to back up the linux partition to another one (external
drive).
From rsync there are seemingly endless error messages about
"disappearing files"
(possibly caused by dangling symlinks), and also some sort of infinite
loop of links
to my home directory. The net effect is that rsync does not work for me.
So: Is there anything I can do about this, or are there any alternatives
to ext2fsd (v0.45. latest)
that will solve my problem? Thanks.
ADDED:
I checked on some of the symlinks, and in many cases they point into
space (but make sense on another
computer that I use and sync with, so I do not want to delete them).
The problem seems to be that either ext2fsd or rsync is being too nosy
about dangling links.
There is no problem when booting into linux and running rsync there. I
have, perhaps errantly,
concluded hat it must be ext2fsd doing something strange, such as
marking he symlink files as "bad"
because they point into space. I don't see any configuration parameter
to change how ext2fsd handles this.
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I use EXT2IFS but only for simple file reading, writing. Everything else is
done from Linux with ntfs-3g mounted drives. No major problems but
occasionally get clean up messages on booting the system.
Robert McBroom
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