On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:56 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote: > Dnia 25-04-2006, wto o godzinie 13:23 +0000, Kevin Kofler napisał(a): > > Maybe that's just me, but even on my single-user system, I want my VFAT > > partitions mounted at predictable, easy-to-remember locations (/c for C:, /d > > for D:, /e for E: and /f for F:) > 1. You can add any partition to fstab in almost any location you want > (you can't use /dev/null for example, but other than existing files, > you're really free to do what you want). Anaconda has a GUI for it and > it worked every time I tried. > 2. It's hard or impossible to know which partition is Windows D: and > which is E:, because: > a) newer Windows versions allow you to change the drives letters on the > fly, you'd have to mount the boot partition (and know which one is > that), read some files from it (when the settings are stored), > understand their format and then remount partitions in appropriate > locations, that's hard I guess, and > b) if you have two Windows versions (i.e. 98 and XP), they can see the > drives with different letters, so which one is more important? > > > some arbitrary /media/diskn locations > > which aren't even consistent from boot to boot. > This is a real problem, but I remember discussions regarding it, so it > will get better and better with time. > > Lam > -- Actually is much -much- worse. Windows 2K and above, keep a UUID to drive letter map in their registry. It's entirely possible to have two Windows OS on the same disk (hda1, hda2), each displaying a third partition (hda3) with a different drive latter. So, even if you mount each Windows drive, open it's registry and read the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices[CDE...] keys, you might have conflicting drive letters. Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
