From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkSs-0001AQ-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:49:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA84D21C026; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C14F21C026 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxa40 with SMTP id 40so4723168vxa.40 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:48:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JnL0IawwB5NfpamLdyHFGXobQcJuAXjaO7RZ5nQA3Ec=; b=L4AOLz4IGA375oAECZbK86xKUDsGTKbBmGpt+0cXcXBq80deLNI8vjIZiLJ+SThjnm 1ruNNFEfuklEX7+isvGRBgnJ/z6vzObu2K1+LgBPs8UpOQdNzDqMmcyhLmQ5xHu5rNWi 7QJR04VyHPjbKxMO2r9V6PGJJKrXtRj23hAk0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.38.5 with SMTP id z5mr2343832vcd.92.1309790886689; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:48:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.188.76 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 07:48:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110704141504.0dd2f1de@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20110703103114.GA2739@acm.acm> <201107031317.42848.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110704121203.GB30318@acm.acm> <20110704141504.0dd2f1de@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:48:06 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Powering off Windows XP, crashing NTFS with a Live CD. From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f46125234925c2d31652b8d9393beaac On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:12:03 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > > o - Do live CDs actually mount filesystems on HDDs? >> >> > Only when you ask them to. >> >> I'm stupid. =C2=A0Of _course_ a live CD can't mount HDD filesystems at b= oot. >> To do this it would need /etc/fstab, for which it would need to be told >> the root partition. =C2=A0A live CD doesn't get this. > > 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. > > Knoppix has been doing the first two for years, and writing the details > to /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount them easily. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. > 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. --=20 Joshua M. Murphy