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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA11060 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 01:12:34 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:11:28 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA23336; Sat, 29 Jul 95 09:12:34 +0100 Message-Id: <9507290812.AA23336@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: executor@nacm.com Cc: Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com> Subject: mount points and executor (Re: Executor/Linux and Mac Drives) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 23:27:57 CDT." <199507290427.XAA04154@ariel.tummy.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:12:33 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk In your message (Fri, 28 Jul 1995 23:27:57 -0500 (CST)), you wrote: >Executor doesn't cope with files across mount points at all. This is indeed a major problem. Cliff, is there any reason why this can't be fixed for 2.0? Because of the brokenness of DOS, all my Linux partitions are higher than 1024 cylinders on my hard disk (a 1.2Gb Conner drive), which gives DOS as much space as it can have. I reserved 20Mb of the disk below cylinder 1024 as my Linux root partition so I can still boot it. This is just to show that there are sometimes forced reasons (quite apart from liking the physical separation of parts of the directory tree) for having multiple Linux partitions, which as Evelyn says, breaks many apps under executor (FoxBASE being one). There is a partial solution. Move everything except your system folder into HFVs on a DOS filesystem, and set your MacVolumes variable to that directory. This seems to avoid some of the problems, and of course also allows you to share data between E/Linux and E/Dos with the minimum of difficulty. Tim.