On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, BretJ <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > >> I use NTFS under Windows. Mark Russinovitch offered a freeware NTFS >> *reader* for DOS through his old Sysinternals site, and a payware driver >> that could also *write* to NTFS from DOS through the sister Winternals site. >> (It was intended for rescue operations on NTFS filesystems from DOS.) > > There are a few of different NTFS utilities for DOS, including the > Winternals ones. I've only had limited success with the ones I've tried, > and wouldn't recommend any of them very highly. It certainly doesn't help > that NTFS is 100% proprietary, or that there are also several different > revisions of NTFS.
Yeah, Linux support has been laboriously reverse engineered. And the revisions are problematic. Vista/Win7, for example, support Honest-to-God symlinks as well as the hard links supported under 2K/XP. I could actually use those in Windows, but symlinks alone aren't sufficient to justify an upgrade. >> I'm not sure how thrilled I'd be at trying to use NTFS as the "native" >> file system on a DOS machine >> (aside from the philosophical questions about whether it's still a DOS >> system if you do...). > > I'm not sure anybody's even considering booting DOS from anything other than > FAT. But, it's really nice to be able to access from DOS the non-boot > partitions on a hard drive, or external drives like USB, that are formatted > with NTFS or EXTx or exFAT or whatever. It would indeed, but I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting. I have Win2K on the box FreeDOS is on, and found an open source extFS driver that reads/writes the ext4 filesystems I use on the Linux instances, and 2K has native FAT32 support, so I'm covered there. >> I wouldn't mind a driver that would let me read ext2/3/4 file systems >> under Linux from DOS, since FreeDOS is installed on a partition on a >> box that has Linux, too, but I'd hardly expect FreeDOS to run on >> top of a Linux FS. > > Is anybody even working on a EXTx driver for DOS? I know I've heard of a > few people experimenting with exFAT, but haven't heard of anything actually > being released. I don't know of anyone doing so, but I haven't actually looked. If I'm in FreeDOS, my need to actually *read* an FS other than FAT is small, and I can live without it. If I need to get to the NTFS or Ext4 slices, I'll boot into an OS that can. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
