Re: How hard would this be?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:30:00PM +0200, neuron wrote:
>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?

There is nothing remotely resembling this functionality in cygwin.  Cygwin
is just a wrapper around the win32 api.  It doesn't do file systems.

cgf

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