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

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

> |> > |> Last time I checked, fsck effectively does "fsck.ext2 e:" __NOT__ 
> |> > |> "fsck /root" so it seems that filesystem checkers use drive letters.
> |> > 
> |> > No.  They use filesystem images.  Whether they are located on a physical
> |> > (block) device or as a plain file in another filesystem doesn't matter.
> |> > Also, you _can_ say "fsck /root" and fsck will look up the (usual) mount
> |> > point in /etc/fstab.
> |> 
> |> And that mount point is....?  a filesystem _or_ DOS drive letter, AFAIR.
> 
> *DOS*????  Linux is Unix, not DOS!

Aren't the hard-disks partitioned at the DOS level???

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