On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? >> >> > >> >> > Only when you ask them to. >> >> >> >> I'm stupid. Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot. >> >> To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be told >> >> the root partition. A live CD doesn't get this. >> > >> > A live CD can mount partitions automatically at boot, some do. all it >> > needs to do is scan the disk partition tables, create the mount points >> > and mount them. >> > >> > Knoppix has been doing the first two for years, and writing the details >> > to /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount them easily. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Neil Bothwick >> > >> > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. >> >> And to further complicate it, many also use a similar technique for >> finding themselves, mounting one filesystem after another until they >> find some distinct marker file to identify where to find the rest of >> their data. Others auto-mount and poke around for auto-loading of >> extensions unless such features are disabled by a boot-time option. > > I've only come across LiveCDs which scan the drive and create mount points - > but not mount any device unless explicitly asked to do so by the user. > > However, I wouldn't be surprised if some more recent installation CDs go > further than that, as Joshua claims. > > Joshua, which LiveCDs behave in the way you describe by automounting > partitions and searching fs? > > -- > Regards, > Mick >
I haven't seen any install cds that do that, but DSL and, if I recall, TinyCore/MicroCore look for extensions in a default path on the local filesystems. One thing I'm fairly sure on, though, is that without the "-f" flag, mount won't take the risk on an unclean NTFS, and instead just tosses an "are you sure?" message, which would make me presume even those livecds that do look for extensions wouldn't risk the damage there. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
