[haiku] Re: mount BFS on linux

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Dustin Howett wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Roland Plüss <roland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Still requires loopback...
> mount -t befs /path/to/image.be /mount/point -o loop
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> Doubt this is ever going to work
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> Er, this syntax? Works perfectly for me all the time. It's shorthand
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> I can't remember this working neither... could be though me using GenToo.

Nah, works for me and I've got gentoo.

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> whereas mount is for character devices. As far as I know though ( the last
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> Block devices, you mean?
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> Yeah, that should have been block. character is for serial block for random.
> Old coder rule: don't hack while late at night... you gonna produce more
> typos than you drink coffee :P

Hehe, very true.
Except /dev/*random are char devices too ;) hehe
But we get it,
and we've gotten quite off-topic. Sorry about that!
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- Dustin L. Howett

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