Re: AW: [MiNT] drive letters (was: Kernal questions)

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > > Let's see how Linux handles this:
> > > 
> > > fsck repairs/verifies drive letters, but the drives are mounted as 
> > > filesystems.  For example, floppy is accessed as /floppy and cd as 
> > > /cdrom, but other drives are mounted as filesystems.
> > > 
> > > Is there any way we could implement something similar on MiNT?
> > > For instance, boot drive could be /boot, but also known to fsck.fat
> > > as drive C (or whichever drive we boot from).
> > > 
> > > Question:  
> > > how do system utilities (ie: fsck) know which drive letters
> > > use what kind of filesystems (ie: FAT, Minix, ext2) on Linux?
> > 
> > The file /etc/mtab contains something like this:
> > 
> > The same information can also be found if you read from /proc/mounts.
> 
> This concept does not work very well with MiNT (or MagiC), as the type of
> the filesystem only depends on the mounted media. We need something more
> flexible.

Very nice Mr.Lincoln, but how do you propose we deal with this, then?

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