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How hard would this be?
- From: neuron <neuron at hollowtube dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:30:00 +0200
- Subject: How hard would this be?
- Reply-to: neuron <neuron at hollowtube dot mine dot nu>
Hey
I have a little problem, I love linux, use it at home all the time,
but until (only a matter of time right ;) the norwegian gov switched
to linux on their desktop computers, I also have to use windows
(unfortunatly). Now I have a swapable harddrive, what I would like to
do, is to have it with a good encrypted filesystem, now on linux that
would be quite easy, but it's not that easy to pull off in windows.
What I was thinking was this, is it possible using cygwin, to mount a
linux drive, with a linux filesystem, to a fake windows drive? Many
windows programs does this, fake drives can't be that hard. I'd love
to have a 5kb mount file on their computers, running that and entering
a password to get my drive whenever I needed it.
Now I know I could probably use cygwin and copy the files to the
windows partition and back, but that would be VERY unpractical, and...
if I remember correctly the computers are setup with NTFS, which means
the files can't be properly wipe'ed afterwards.
Ideas anyone?
neuron
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