Mounting Starport ESX/Linux disk Image with a windows system

[warhed]

hello,

While it is possible to mount a Starport created iSCSI file that is in the ESX/Linux disk format, I cannot read the contents of the file. This may be normal, but I am playing with worst case scenario data recovery idea's.

is there a way to view the contents?

Thanks

[aaron (staff)]

Unless you've managed to boot Linux from FAT or NTFS formatted partition (something I really cant' imagine you did) you have RaiserFS, Ext2/3 or something Linux specific on it. That's why you need to local dedicated Linux FS drive on the Windows machine to read StarPort mounted Linux volume. I'd recommend you start looking at Ext2 for Windows. Paragon Software has some stuff like this and also there's free (probably read-only capable) driver. In any case we've already did our job and now Google is your friend

hello,

While it is possible to mount a Starport created iSCSI file that is in the ESX/Linux disk format, I cannot read the contents of the file. This may be normal, but I am playing with worst case scenario data recovery idea's.

is there a way to view the contents?

Thanks