Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 05:23:57 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > if mounted by vold: use as mounted fs > > if not mounted: use device directly, 'fdformat /dev/fd0' etc. > > Pop in a floppy that you want to format. Oops, was formated with MSDOS, no > way to _not_ mount it to get to point (b).
Well, actually with Slowlaris you can use /vol/dev/r* to get to the raw device. But yes, vold is ugly.
> > How difficult is that? > > ESP required, minimum. The opcode RUM (Read User's Mind) hasn't been > implemented, AFAIK.
Oh, sure it was. Not as opcode, but on the shell level find ~luser -name '*.jpeg' -print makes a decen^Waccurate approximation.
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