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it’s 2023 and when I plug in my flash drive it still shows up as the d: drive. what’s up with that. are a and b still reserved for legacy crap?
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i always mapped my usb drives to b:
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if they could make the little clunk-clunk buzz buzz noise that would be super
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Please insert disk 219/420 into drive A
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filthy regex posted:Please insert disk 219/420 into drive A 
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keep using floppies
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keep???
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Sep 7, 2023 20:57
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I use every letter for drive mapping except B:, the beta letter
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Sep 7, 2023 21:10
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yes, you can use them for floppies op
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op don't be an a drive hater what if you need to install windows 8
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lol windows filesystem is loving insane. here’s a nickel satya, read some fuckin’ design docs / 
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a drive? you mean /dev/sda? 
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Dijkstracula posted:a drive? you mean /dev/fd0?
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you can assign anything any drive letter you want op. shameful thread
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can we have emoji drive letters yet
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windows drive letters are just symlinks so C:\dump.txt actually expands to something like \\?\Volume{b75e2c83-0000-0000-0000-602f00000000}\dump.txt
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mounting storage wherever as if it is interchangeable is such an idiotic unix'ism, and has been at just about every point of its existence. users need to know and differentiate between their media in an obvious way (and in a pool situation no one sane did it by random mount points either)
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Beeftweeter posted:you can assign anything any drive letter you want op. shameful thread I assign this post an F
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Sep 10, 2023 21:15
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putting the hard disk on my F: drive under heavy load 🥵
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:mounting storage wherever as if it is interchangeable is such an idiotic unix'ism, and has been at just about every point of its existence. users need to know and differentiate between their media in an obvious way (and in a pool situation no one sane did it by random mount points either) 
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Sep 10, 2023 21:36
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install windows on A: op
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:mounting storage wherever as if it is interchangeable is such an idiotic unix'ism, and has been at just about every point of its existence. users need to know and differentiate between their media in an obvious way (and in a pool situation no one sane did it by random mount points either) removable storage, sure permanent storage, lolno
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dont most normal distros always mount removable drives under /media?
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i like being able to mount some removable storage under special mount points by uuid
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The_Franz posted:
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well-read undead posted:removable storage, sure if you were on a real unix you got veritas or whatever, because if the setup involved the user being aware of disk space running out in one place or another you probably should just make it clear to the user what *is* one place or another
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rotor posted:dont most normal distros always mount removable drives under /media? pretty much anything posix uses /dev
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i thought /dev was where the devices themselves lived but the mount points could be whatever fstab said
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Beeftweeter posted:pretty much anything posix uses /dev /dev is for device nodes, not mount points
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lmao pcs in 2023 still make 8086 backwards compatible booting stuff and use drive letters designed for two floppy drives and one hard drive.
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Considering the average age here, I'm surprised most of YOSPOS doesn't have floppy disks.
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theres pills for that now
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rotor showing off his original IBM 8" floppy while laughing at everyone else's 3.5"
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Bluemillion posted:Considering the average age here, I'm surprised most of YOSPOS doesn't have floppy disks. i really wish i did but gotek drives are much more convenient and for some reason its TYOOL 2023 (3189 YOLD if yr freaky) and i still can't write Amiga formatted floppies on a PC
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Dijkstracula posted:
usb floppy drives appears as /dev/sda in linux if it's the first sd* device, so i guess the original point might stand
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naming the drives a and c and wondering where b went
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:mounting storage wherever as if it is interchangeable is such an idiotic unix'ism, and has been at just about every point of its existence. users need to know and differentiate between their media in an obvious way (and in a pool situation no one sane did it by random mount points either) How could you think this? I know system administration is a dying thing these days but imagine it’s 1980, buying a unix system for a university with one years budget and then a few years later buying a drive just for /home because your students love to dump warez and b&w porn TIFFs. You ever try to move C:\users\ or c:\program files\ to another drive? How about moving just your browser cache to an xpoint drive? If you know a nice way to do it on a running system with zero broken poo poo I’d actually really really like you to share. It’s a great way to grow without busting your budget and it comes with performance benefits as your users trash the home directory drive downloading entire newsgroups worth of prons and the rest of the system chugs along just fine.
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