I guess, that the title says it quite clearly ;)

Bye, MarK.

errr.. you cant



magnetic

Only FFS, SFS and FAT partitions can be accessed from Linux and MorphOS.

Ouch, I was afraid, someone will tell this... Is there a way to put some files to a linux partition without the linux itself?

Bye, MarK.

I don't understand, why still does not exists an EXT2 and/or EXT3 filesystem for AmigaOS. It's open source! I can't belive it's so impossible to port!!

Well accessing the 'Partition' under Ambient should be possible with every Partitioning program that supports the Partition ID's for all known File System types.

Accessing the File System itself is something that should be asked and answered first. There is nothing like THE File System for Linux.

Manny years back people used MINIX than later on EXT2 for quite some years. With the big boom that happened through Linux a lot more powerful File Systems appeared and are throughly used by people these days such as XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, EXT3 (only to name the most common used ones).

To answer the question about 'why is it not ported yet' can be answered like this. A lot of these File Systems (specially Load intensive ones such as Journaling File Systems and 64-bit B-Trees) are heavily tied to other parts of the Linux Kernel such as VMEM manager, Preemptive Scheduler, Load/Balancing handler etc. Porting these File Systems towards MorphOS probably won't be that easy (no it's not Ambient, it's more MorphOS related).

Note: If we look at already existing solutions on AmigaOS or MorphOS then our own File Systems still have quite some issues in stability and reliability e.g. SFS one tiny error and you can entirely trash the File System and reformat the Partition.

Please also differ between Partition and File System. These are two entirely different things. Partitioning a Harddisk is a physical process in dividing areas in different size. A File System is something you put on that Partition and the File System can be of different type.

greetings,

oGALAXYo

A little bit more clearer now.

If you want to exchange data between MorphOS and Linux create a separate partition and format it with SFS.
You can mount it under MorphOS and Linux and transfer your files.

@oGALAXYo:

Thanks for answer. But I still think, that there is nothing impossible... If someone'd write a FS, what coultd at least read EXT FS's would be great for me, and I think for many people...

linux can definitly see fat. i work that way all the time

a fat partitian or removeable drive is another option.

Actually.. I saw a ext2 fs for AmigaOS once upon a time ... I wonder what happened to it...

Hi!
Best joice is "fat" up to now!
MOS, Linux and even MOL can r/w it....
bye
frostwork

@wishmaster

How do you mount it in MOS??

magnetic

hi, magnetic!
I'm sure that you mix up s.th, as you probably
have a mounted SFS-partition, too under MOS...

Hey Frostwork!

That post was too cryptic for me ... please rephrase

magnetic

Created with SCSIConfig and automounted under MorphOS.
In Linux something like mount -t asfs /dev/hda... /mnt/... or put it into /etc/fstab

Wishmaster

Thnks for the post..

magnetic