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mount points and executor (Re: Executor/Linux and Mac Drives)
In your message (Fri, 28 Jul 1995 23:27:57 -0500 (CST)), you wrote:
>Executor doesn't cope with files across mount points at all.
This is indeed a major problem. Cliff, is there any reason why this
can't be fixed for 2.0?
Because of the brokenness of DOS, all my Linux partitions are higher
than 1024 cylinders on my hard disk (a 1.2Gb Conner drive), which
gives DOS as much space as it can have. I reserved 20Mb of the disk
below cylinder 1024 as my Linux root partition so I can still boot it.
This is just to show that there are sometimes forced reasons (quite
apart from liking the physical separation of parts of the directory
tree) for having multiple Linux partitions, which as Evelyn says,
breaks many apps under executor (FoxBASE being one).
There is a partial solution. Move everything except your system
folder into HFVs on a DOS filesystem, and set your MacVolumes variable
to that directory. This seems to avoid some of the problems, and of
course also allows you to share data between E/Linux and E/Dos with
the minimum of difficulty.
Tim.
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