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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:00:54 +0100
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On Monday 04 Jul 2011 15:48:06 Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs?
> >> >=20
> >> > Only when you ask them to.
> >>=20
> >> I'm stupid. Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at boot.
> >> To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be told
> >> the root partition. A live CD doesn't get this.
> >=20
> > A live CD can mount partitions automatically at boot, some do. all it
> > needs to do is scan the disk partition tables, create the mount points
> > and mount them.
> >=20
> > Knoppix has been doing the first two for years, and writing the details
> > to /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount them easily.
> >=20
> >=20
> > --
> > Neil Bothwick
> >=20
> > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
>=20
> And to further complicate it, many also use a similar technique for
> finding themselves, mounting one filesystem after another until they
> find some distinct marker file to identify where to find the rest of
> their data. Others auto-mount and poke around for auto-loading of
> extensions unless such features are disabled by a boot-time option.
I've only come across LiveCDs which scan the drive and create mount points =
=2D=20
but not mount any device unless explicitly asked to do so by the user.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if some more recent installation CDs go=20
further than that, as Joshua claims.
Joshua, which LiveCDs behave in the way you describe by automounting=20
partitions and searching fs?
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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