Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/10/06:20:45
On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > Yep, I think it should be possible to mount BOTH ways from the
> > start. I mean I for one love mounting under a subdir, but hey,
> > this is DOS, and I don't want to see drive letters disappear
> > either. Both ways should be made possible from the start.
>
> Why not? Given that you must provide a formatted 'drive' a volume name,
> you could give the name 'root' to your primary boot hard drive, and mount
> other volume-names to a directory on your root.
>
> ie, if you want to access your DJGPP files and they're on drive 'djgpp',
> you just type:
>
> mount djgpp
>
> And volia! You do a DIR of your and djgpp it there!
>
> What makes this really neat is with the advent of removable media hard
> drives, you could mount several volumes without their actually being in
> the drive, the system would prompt you to insert the volume if you
> accessed it and it wasn't in the drive.
How can you "mount" something that is not there? That is a
contradiction of terms. You mount a disk, use it, then umount
it and then remove it. If you remove a disk without umounting,
kiss the disk goodbye and get your fingers on the BRS.
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