Support of WBFS partition

[pmithrandir]

Hi,

I have a partition on WBS partition type. (Wii partition)

I wouls like to access it from my mageia.
Do you know how I can do that ?

Thanks
Pierre

[doktor5000]

You could take a look at http://code.google.com/p/linux-wbfs-manager/
or http://sourceforge.net/p/wiibafu/home/W ... %20Fusion/
I've also heard reports of WBFS Manager working good under wine.

[pmithrandir]

wiibackup fusion seems to do what I need.
I will check that this evening.

Thank you

If someone find a driver to access directly to wbfs partition datas, it would be nice too(I found that strange that linux has no notive acess on these partition... it's the first time that linux doesn't recognize something in year !!!)

[doktor5000]

Maybe because wbfs is really buggy, and should nowadays not be used? Because it needs special handling?
You can perfectly use NTFS with some of the newer loaders, like Wiiflow, because then it can be accessed without
special software/drivers.

If you still want to use it under linux, there's a FUSE driver for it: http://wit.wiimm.de/wfuse/

[pmithrandir]

ok, I thought there should be something.

On USB Loader, they say that they advice to keep WBFS if possible, because there is more issue with NTFS.

I will test it in the next days... I'm pretty new in the wii world...

Thank you very much.

[doktor5000]

The original USB Loader is pretty much outdated, and overall there are more WBFS issues than NTFS ones.
But as long as it works for you, just use it. IIRC USB Loader doesn't even support NTFS.