Final Year Project: Using Linux Filesystems Under Windows   Chris Bryden BEng. Electronics and Software Engineering    School of Computer Science   University of Birmingham 67 If  the  specified  partition  does  not  contain  a  valid  ext2  filesystem,  an  error  is given. The cmdlin will still mount a partition even if it has been marked as dirty, although this is not recommended as program behaviour may be unpredictable. Once  the  partition  has  been  mounted,  the  following  command  are  available  to the user. 18.5  Viewing Directory Contents - The ‘ls’ Command To view the contents of the current directory, simply type ls and hit return. The dirtectory listing is displayed as shown below: