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

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

> > |> 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.

fsck uses the device names for the partitions. DOS letters are
*completely* nonexistent in Linux. fsck uses things like /dev/hda0 which
means partition 0 of the first harddisk (a). Throught the whole process of
appointing drive partitions to mount points, you'll never see drive
letters.

On my linuxbox, there is hence only a drive C (because dos can't see the
linux partition), whereas linux sees both the dos and the linux-root
partitions (hda0 and hda1).. there's no trace of a drive D on the system
anywhere. :)

Maurits.

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