Yep, a disagreement with someone at work. I argued that in Unix variants one mounts, actually attaches, file systems, not partitions. I don't think you can write to a partition with no file system. One can partition a drive, but you can mount, or attach, a file system until the partition is initialized with a file system. Am i correct? Thanks in advance..
On May 6, 2:58 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > you can have byte access to the filesystem, but to have file access, > you need to mount it (so that the kernel will translate the bytes into > files). > > Is there some overarching goal you're driving at? > > On 5/6/09, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Not that I know of. I know you can burn CDs without mounting, but once the > > file system is in place, you have to mount it to read it. This is my own > > limited knowledge/experience, and could be completely wrong. > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 09:32, tinker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Can you read/write to an unmounted filesystem? > > > > Thanks > > -- > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
