2021-03-12 0:05 GMT-04:00, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>: > On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 16:02:55 (-0400), Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: >> Think of E: and F: >> as sdc1 and sdd1, with direct access to those E: and F:. > > Take care how you express this. sdc1 and sdd1 *do* give you direct > access to devices, but it's raw, and doesn't go through the filesystem > access methods. Consequently it would be the easiest way to destroy > your files, which is exactly how most users employ it: with dd, to > write one filesystem over another, or to wipe it with /dev/zero or > /dev/urandom.
Oh, thanks, I didn't know that. > You'd have to sort out the delimiter ":", and the semantics of > a filename F1:something/something_else. (I take it you're familiar > with how the interpretation of F:a\b is distinguished from F:\a\b > in Windows.) I'm sorry, I don't know that difference. I made some experiments. It looks like every letter has its own working directory, and F:\a\b is just an absolute path but F:a\b is acomments, lative to the working directory of F: Is it right? > Perhaps read this, by someone playing around with a filesystem from > the simpler times in the last century. > > http://time.to.pullthepl.ug/post/2013/06/24/porting-an-ancient-filesystem-to-modern-linux/ Thanks, I will read it later. Thanks for your comments and help, I find them very useful. Have a good day.
