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marats
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ext3 in linux in windows

Hi,

I have a windows host machine that's running linux under vmware. One of the partitions on my hard drive is currently ext3. I was wondering if there's any way to mount that partition in the guest linux machine.

thanks

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rkr002
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I think, it is possible in a normal way:

  • Edit settings for the VM and create/add a new Virtual disk, which uses Physical disk, then select individual Partitions.

It should not matter that the host is Windows.

But - as I haven't tested it - there may be some issues depending on how the disk has been partitioned (under Linux or Windows)

Read thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/513200

you can also search the forum, there were discussions about that.

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rkr002
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I think, it is possible in a normal way:

  • Edit settings for the VM and create/add a new Virtual disk, which uses Physical disk, then select individual Partitions.

It should not matter that the host is Windows.

But - as I haven't tested it - there may be some issues depending on how the disk has been partitioned (under Linux or Windows)

Read thread http://communities.vmware.com/message/513200

you can also search the forum, there were discussions about that.

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AWo
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Like rkr002 wrote you can add a virtual disk to your guest which points to the ext3 partition.


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marats
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Ok, I see now, I wasn't even aware of that option... But I'm still having a problem: when i try to add the partition, vmware says:

Failed to add disk ide0:0.

Could not add device ide0:0.

Is this because I'm adding a partition that is on the same physical drive as the windows partition? I tried deleting the partition and making it from windows, but that didn't help. Although, as far as i can remember, I did the partitioning originally in Linux, so maybe the wntire partition table is the problem? I think this is unlikely, since windows doesn't have any problems reading it.

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marats
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OK, never mind, I just needed to power off the VM first...

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