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

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com> writes:

|> > |> > |> 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???

What have partitions to do with DOS?  It's just a means to, err, partition
the disk space in mutiple, contiguous regions.  That's completely
independent from whether there is an OS (Linux) or not (DOS).

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