Re: Of removable devices

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 05:23:57 EST


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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