Accessing ext3 partitions from Windows with FS Driver

Hi everyone,
I have a slight probem. I'm dual-booting ArchLinux and Windows. Here is my partition scheme:
/dev/sda1 (NTFS) Lenovo Recovery partition
/dev/sda2 (NTFS) Windows
/dev/sda3 (ext2) /boot
/dev/sda5 (JFS) /
/dev/sda6 (JFS) /home
/dev/sda7 (ext3) [documents] partition mounted on /media/data
/dev/sda8 (swap) swap
Everything works fine on the Linux side (of course).
The problem is that I use http://www.fs-driver.org/ to access my documents (/dev/sda7) from Windows.
This worked fine (I was using Kubuntu) but now I had to format the disk in order to install ArchLinux and FS Driver would not recognize the "documents" partition.
I think it might be because the partition is not PRIMARY but LOGICAL. Is there a way to fix this without reformatting everything (just formatting /dev/sda7 is fine with me) ?
Thank you in advance
Last edited by yms (2009-09-11 14:08:17)

Hi, I just stumbled across this one and thought I'd throw in my two cents....
Something I've found about windows is that it's -very- picky about partition sizes.
For instance, on a new system of mine, I did dual booting windows/Linux from partitions on the same hard drive.
The windows partition was first. After creating my Linux partitions, windows would no longer boot, said the partition table was corrupt.
(All partitions were primary)
The solution? I created my Linux partitions using windows tools (which wasted around 10Gigs of hard drive space) and finished them off with linux tools.
Everything worked fine then.
Bottom line, Linux can use partition sizes that (some?) windows will refuse to use.
You should be able to simply remove the last 2 partitions (sda7 and sda8). Any partitioner should work (gparted, cfdisk, windows logical disk manager). Don't forget to move your documents. If you do this from your installed Linux system, don't forget to disable your swap space or you won't be able to remove that partition.
...might also need to unmount /dev/sda7 to use cfdisk... I think gparted does this automatically but don't quote me on that one...
Then you can recreate the last two partitions using windows. Then use Linux to set their types, format them, and restore your documents.
Just to simplify things with the swap space, it's probably easier to use a live distro than your installed Linux.
If your fstab uses UUID's, don't forget to update as formatting will assign new UUID's to the partitions.
... should solve at least half the problem.
laters,
b

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http://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/entry/accessing_opensolaris_shares_from_windows
Any help to get this problem resolved is much appreciated
Thanks,
Kurt

The documented procedure of having to edit the pam_conf file seems to work followed by resetting one's password seems to work after all. I believe, by taking away ownership from root to "admin user" screwed things up. I had to relearn how to use vi but that didn't take very long.
Got about 50 MB/s speed coping from Windows SSD to SE11 SSD via very small (5 GB) RAIDZ array in VMWare (running on top of WIN 7-64). I have to try native SE11 SSD next as the VMWare setup is just for practice.
Q: Is there a way to launch gedit from the terminal window in root mode so I wouldn't have to use vi?
Kurt

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Hi,
I am trying to upgrade our 2008 domain to 2008R2 but with that last version we cannot access to cifs shares on the NSS3000. Access from all other clients are OK. It was 100% OK under 2008...
Whether I use the IP or the FQDN, I got an error from Windows 2008R2. From IP, I got "No process is on the other end of pipe." and from network Gui, I got "Windows cannot access \\nas0026CB647BC6. Check the spelling of the name...blabla. Details : Error Code : 0x80070035, The network path was not found".
On the NAS, I got this errors in the cifs logs :
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine WIN2008-PDC.bluemoon.holywell.leics pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x4002returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: [2011/02/24 14:12:45, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine WIN2008-PDC.bluemoon.holywell.leics pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x4002returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: [2011/02/24 14:12:45, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine WIN2008-PDC.bluemoon.holywell.leics pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x4002returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: [2011/02/24 14:12:45, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine WIN2008-PDC.bluemoon.holywell.leics pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x4002returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: [2011/02/24 14:12:45, 0] rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
Feb 24 14:12:45 NAS0026cb647bc6 winbindd[28457]: rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine WIN2008-PDC.bluemoon.holywell.leics pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x4002returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
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I can ping it, I can connect on the web interface, I can connect on FTP but no CIFS at all.
Firmware version running is 1.20.1. Hardware rev : V03.
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Hi SpaceBass, have you looked into sharepoints or into Netinfo manager. I have been playing around with sharepoints and it does let me enter non local users into the sharing prefs- albeit manually. Only thing is , depending on the number of macs you have, it could be a long and tedious job entering it all by hand. Netinfo may have an easier way, I'll do some more digging and post back.
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I found that when ever this Domain Controller was the selected one, all access to CIFS shares from Windows clients failed! This is correct, because the 216.150.17.8 of course is unaware of all users in Our Domain
So the Questions are:
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- why is a Domain Controller 216.150.17.8 sometimes the Selected Controller?
- where does this 216.150.17.8 come from?
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This is a log snip
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2009-5-14 09:24:53 Executing stop method (:kill).
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2009-5-14 09:23:48 Executing stop method (:kill).
2009-5-14 09:23:48 Stopping because all processes in service exited.
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