XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 2/5/2025 10:04 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 20:59:05 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 2/5/2025 7:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> No? This IFS thing doesn’t seem to be used much.   
   >>   
   >> The person who wrote that (EXT2IFS), didn't seem interested in   
   >> maintaining it forever.   
   >> It seemed more of a demo of IFS.   
   >   
   > Was there anything that made serious use of it?   
   >   
   >> I don't know if source was released or not.   
   >   
   > If it was, someone else could have maintained it. Open Source survives,   
   > not on user popularity, but on contributions from an active community.   
   >   
      
   I'm editing a text file from an EXT4 partition, using   
   nothing but Microsoft-provided tools. Right now!   
      
   PS> wmic diskdrive list brief   
   Caption                  DeviceID            Model                      
   Partitions  Size   
   Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB  \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0  Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB    
   6           4000784417280   
   WDC WD5003ABYZ-011FA0    \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1  WDC WD5003ABYZ-011FA0      
   6           500105249280   <=== Disk drive   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
                                                                                    
   from Test Machine   
   PS> wsl --mount \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 --partition 7   
   The disk was successfully mounted as '/mnt/wsl/PHYSICALDRIVE1p7'   
   To unmount and detach, run 'wsl.exe --unmount \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1'   
      
   PS> bash   
   df           # Boring bits removed (Ubuntu-specific SNAP mounts and so on)   
      
   Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on   
      
   none             32897176         4  32897172   1% /mnt/wsl   
   /dev/sdc7        40973776   7759136  31101104  20% /mnt/wsl/PHYSICALDRIVE1p7   
   /dev/sdd       1055762868   5272140 996787256   1%    
                               # slash in VHDX file   
   none             32897176       100  32897076   1% /mnt/wslg   
   C:\             124493820  84403884  40089936  68% /mnt/c   
   H:\             135264344  58723016  76541328  44% /mnt/h   
   S:\             715167740 675510336  39657404  95% /mnt/s   
      
   \\wsl$ in File Explorer, brings up a file share from the running bash.   
   Bash can also be running, without a shell instance, and serve the files   
   from a faceless session, until shutdown command issued.   
      
   \\wsl$ exposes:   
      
   \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-20.04\mnt\wsl\PHYSICALDRIVE1p7\home\bullwinkle   
        I-AM-LM221CIN.txt    83 bytes   
      
   Here is the accompanying picture.   
      
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       https://i.postimg.cc/gjdTrsLx/Mount-EXT4-via-WSL-and-fileshare.gif   
      
     Paul   
      
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