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1 explore2fs, the Linux file system utility for Windows NT
2 Copyright (C) 2005 John Newbigin
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4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
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9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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19 What is this program?
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22 This is an explorer like program which can read and interpret the second
23 extended file system (EXT2) and the third extended filesystem (EXT3).
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26 Why is it written in Delphi?
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29 I like Delphi. It allows great user interfaces to be designed in a very short
30 amount of time. The problem is however that processing large amounts of data,
31 or performing pointer arithmetic is difficult and clumsy. So I decided that I
32 would take the challenge and write a useful program in Delphi.
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34 Where did the name Explore2fs come from?
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37 My first working name was ex2fs explorer. It was shortened to make it easier
38 to write.
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40 Why is this not a filesystem driver?
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43 Now it is. I have developed an IFS for Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3. See
44 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm for details.
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47 What OS does it run on?
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50 Windows 95
51 Windows 98
52 Windows ME
53 Windows NT
54 Windows 2000
55 Windows XP
56 Windows 2003 Server
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58 Win32s is not supported
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61 Has it been tested?
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64 Read support has been extensivly tested on many machines, IDE and SCSI. It
65 works with all blocks sizes, 1k, 2k and 4k.
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67 Some people have problems under 95/98/ME. Please read the section on Windows 95
68 further down.
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70 I something doesn't seem to be working, enable full debugging and send me a copy
71 of the debug log along with a description of the problem and I will try and fix
72 it.
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75 What doesn't work?
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78 For a more complete list of features, look at the changes file.
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81 Special Information for Windows 95/98/ME
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84 The disk reading implementation for Windows 95/98/ME is clumsy at best. For
85 more information read this web page
86 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/diskio/index.htm
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88 As of 1.00 pre2, there is support for extended interupt 13. This should solve
89 most problems with large disks under 95/98/ME but there are still some issues.
90 People who use fance partitioning tools (like PartitionMagic) often have
91 problems.
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93 All disks should have a boot sector. For hard disks this will not be a problem,
94 but if you have a linux floppy, you will have to copy a standard DOS boot
95 sector onto it. This can be done by the following commands:
96 - Insert a dos disk in fd0 (or whatever your floppy drive is)
97 - type: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/bootsector.dos bs=512 count=1
98 - Insert your Linux disk, or type: mke2fs /dev/fd0 (to create a new one)
99 - type: dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/tmp/bootsector.dos bs=512 count=1
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101 And you should be right.
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103 Note: DO NOT DO THIS TO YOUR HARD DISK! or you will end up crying.
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105 Windows NT/XP/2K/2K3
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108 As of version 1.00 pre4 there is support for NT Native IO. This bypasses the
109 Win32 API and uses NTDLL.DLL directly. This means that the partition devices
110 used internaly by NT can be used. This means that my parition scan code is not
111 used which should solve problems people have with Partition Magic. The down
112 side is that you don't know the partition type, number or size. This means that
113 the partitions are labeled wrong (or at least differently) to the previous
114 method.
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116 Using user names and group names
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118 If you want to display user names and group names instead of id's, you can
119 select a passwd file and group file from the options dialog. First you should
120 export the appropriate files from you linux partition. If you don't want to use
121 this feature, remove the file names in the options dialog.
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123 Note that the same user names and gropus are used for all partitions.
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125 Floppy support
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127 If you want to use floppy support, you will have to make sure that floppy
128 support is selected under the general options. The floppy drive will show up as
129 fda0. If you have a LS-120 drive, or other non-floppy floppy drive (ie. not on
130 the floppy bus (meaning IDE or SCSI)) then you may have it partitioned. If
131 partitions are found, they will show up as fda1, fda2 etc.
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134 Where do I find the latest version?
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137 My linux homepage is at http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/
138 This page will contain the latest information and versions of all my linux
139 related software.
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141 How do I contact the author?
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143 I can be contacted by e-mail: jn@it.swin.edu.au
144 or snail-mail
145 John Newbigin
146 8 Robinson Ct.
147 North Bayswater 3151
148 Vic Australia
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151 What if I want to send you money?
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154 I by no means expect people to send me money, but if you feel like contributing
155 financially then you can use PayPal to send money to jn@it.swin.edu.au
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157 You might also want to send me an email letting me know so I can collect the
158 money.
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