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

To: Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] drive letters (was: Kernal questions)
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 03 Feb 1999 12:42:04 +0100
Cc: Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>, "Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>, Jvrg Westheide <Joerg_Westheide@su.maus.de>, mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
In-reply-to: Martin-Eric Racine's message of "Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:28:19 +0200 (EET)"
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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.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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