F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 18.07.13 17:11, James Hogarth (james.hogarth at gmail.com) wrote:

> On 18 July 2013 16:51, Eric Smith <brouhaha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Maybe your question is poorly stated, then.
> >
> > What I thought you asked was how to read Linux log files from a
> > Windows installation, e.g., when Linux fails to boot.
> 
> 
> This is indeed the question - so given you understood it so it seems I
> would say that it was not poorly stated.
> 
> 
> >  In the past I've been able to do that using ext2fsd without much
> > difficulty.
> 
> 
> This will not work depending on ext4 options, if LVM is in use or if BTRFS
> is used which is of course now supported as an option in the
> installer.

Actually, it's worse. The driver requires you to turn of driver
signature verification of Windows. That's just a huge mess. (Also, it
doesn't support the current Windows version).

I don't think that using ext2fsd is possible "without much
difficulty". It's great that such a tool exists, but it's a hacker tool,
for somebody who is willing to alter his Windows installations in
non-trivial ways.

I am pretty sure that just downloading an ISO of the latest Fedora
livecd and dd'ing it to an USB disk is a ton more fun that the ext2fsd
dance, and is a lot more comprehensive with its LVM, LUKS, btrfs support
that pretty much just works.

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.