[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Rev wrote:
> 
> On 5/9/2005, "Tom Schutzer-Weissmann" <trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >- symlinks
> >- grep
> >- the loopback device
> >- modprobe
> 
> mount!  It's really one of the big things that *nix does better.  Run
> out of space in /home/jsmith/foo?  Slot in a new hard drive, copy the
> data across then mount it over the top.  Hey presto, more space for
> /home/jsmith/foo without having to update anything pointing to it.

Windows has had the ability to mount drives against paths rather than
drive letters since Win2k.  What you can't do is remap any of
the core directories (the ones for which it would be most useful, like
Documents and Settings), partly because you can never turn off enough of
windows so that they wouldn't be in use.

> 
> (If you wanna get tricky, show them LVM.)

Again, there is an equivalent.  Can't be plugged in everywhere at the
same low level (see above) but it's there.

-- 
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.
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