>Windows has to be made aware of any Linux partition(s) on your system. > From my experience "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" works >really well. See http://www.fs-driver.org/
>Fire it up and the Linux partition becomes totally accessible >(read-write) from Windows, and therefore from Cygwin. Incidentally >really useful for drag and drop, whatever, without going near Cygwin. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your reply. I installed the fs-driver and it found the drives/file systems however it seems to think the linux partition is unformated :( When I did the "fdisk -l" it shows a partition type of "83" Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9561 76798701 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 9562 60801 411585300 5 Extended /dev/sda5 9562 12667 24948913+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 12668 13861 9590773+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 13862 60801 377045518+ 7 HPFS/NTFS ----------- here is my actual code --------------- STAMP="fast34_lin1_`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S`" SOURCE="/dev/sda5" DIR="/cygdrive/f/$STAMP" TARGET="$DIR/$STAMP.img.gz" dd if=$SOURCE | gzip > $TARGET dd: opening `/dev/sda5': No such file or directory -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/dd-to-linux-partition-tp30502781p30511994.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
