Where is my 2G? - MC

[Patton Echols]

On 04/11/2007 07:25 PM, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:46 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, Scott, you have misread the issue.  NOTHING should write to 
>> an UNMOUNTED partition - it shouldn't even be aware of its 
>> availability. 
>>     
>
> No Brian, that's wrong. This isn't Microsoft, or some other OS that
> protects you from yourself. Unix/Linux will happily "give you enough
> rope to shoot yourself in the foot". I haven't misread anything, you
> need to learn more about what you're playing with before you blindly
> screw up your own system, and then blame the tools for your mistake.
>
> I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, I'm trying _very_ hard to keep this
> response professional and neutral. When I made similar mistakes 15 years
> ago, I got told _once_ what I did wrong, and if I didn't get the hint,
> people would usually just plonk you and move on. :-)
>
> Long and short - you need to learn more about what you're doing before
> you go blaming the tools that are working _exactly_ as they are
> designed. That isn't a bug, that is MOST definately a FEATURE.
>
>   
Interesting, Scott.  For those of us clueless . . . If he mistakenly 
tells mc to send to an unmounted partition, what is the design 
behavior?  I didn't seem to pick that up from the thread.  I am new to 
linux and trying to figure out some of the design logic that has not yet 
become "intuitive" to me.  Thanks for thoughts.

P.