HELP: Accessing Linux partitions from Windows

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jan 7 19:28:34 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:08 +0100, D G wrote:
> I am using Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2) and Fedora Core 3.
> 
> I have three primary partitions: NTFS, Linux boot and Type 8E (according to 
> Partition Magic). In the third partition, there are the Linux swap and Linux 
> /  . But they are not recognised in Windows, neither by the disk manager nor 
> by Partition Magic.
> 
> According to Linux, the partition / is in /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 
> Ext2ifs and Explore2fs only recognises the /boot partition. How can I mount 
> the / partition?

Your third partition is an LVM Physical Volume, and I'm not aware of any
Windows software that can read them.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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