mount2(1)                         mount2 manual                       mount2(1)

NAME
       mount2 - UNIX-like mount tool for Windows

SYNOPSIS
       mount2 <disk_number> <partition_number> <drive_letter>
       mount2 /dev/hd<a|..|z><1|..|99> <drive_letter>

       mount2 /umount <drive_letter>
       mount2 /unmount <drive_letter>

       umount <drive_letter>
       unmount <drive_letter>

DESCRIPTION
       mount2 is in some way a Windows version of the mount tool in UNIX
       environments. It is an extended version of Matt Wu's mount.exe .
       It allows you to make "disk partition to drive letter" mappings from
       command line without opening Windows' control center. My extension
       makes it possible to use more Linux-like disk/partition names: It tries
       to bring the well-known /dev/hdXX naming scheme to Windows. Therefore
       it accesses the MBR of the disk and re-reads the partition table in the
       same way Linux reads it (hda1 = first primary, hda5 = first logical).

       Matt's original version accepts the first kind of arguments using
       Windows' disk and partition numbers and a DOS drive letter.
       My extension goes with just two arguments - an equivalent Linux device
       name and the drive letter.
       Umount (removing mappings after usage) functionality is invoked by
       specifying "/umount" as the first argument plus the drive letter. Or:
       If the mount2 executable is copied or renamed to a file called "umount",
       it accepts one argument only: the drive letter to remove.

EXAMPLES
       mount2 0 1 f:
              Mount partition 1 of hard disk 0 to f: . Windows' disk partition
              numbering scheme starts with 0. Partition numbering starts with
              1 !

       mount2 /dev/hda1 f:
              Same meaning as the last example, but with equivalent Linux
              device name. Linux' partition numbering starts with 1 !
              Device numbering is done with letters a, b, c ... !

       mount2 /dev/hdc4 u:
              Mount the forth ("4") primary partition of the third ("c")
              hard disk to u:

       mount2 /dev/hdb6 u:
              Mount the second ("6") logical partition of the second ("b")
              hard disk to u:

       mount2 /umount f:
              Remove mapping to drive f:

       umount f:
              Ditto.

NOTES
       The MBR/partition table reading code supports "PC BIOS" or "MS DOS"
       partition tables only. So, my extension won't work on disks with LDM
       or EFI partition tables.

       mount2 should work on Windows 2000/XP and above.

BUGS
       mount2 is in use over one year now (with my extension). There are no
       known issues with them, but be aware of the fact, that this is a kind of
       "quick and dirty" coded extension, so there might still be bugs ...

       Matt's original code seems to be pretty stable.

AUTHOR
       Originally written by Matt Wu <mattwu@163.com>
                             (http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net).
       Extended by Joachim Foerster <JOFT@gmx.de> in 2006.

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$LastChangedDate: 2007-09-03 20:28:53 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) $