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- 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.
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- 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.
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