Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Of removable devices | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:13:05 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@tanstaafl.de> said: [...] > pops a requester "Please insert floppy "foobla" (as far as I know, > there is a unique identifier for both ext2 and DOS
... which is dutifully duplicated when you copy a floppy, and which also depends on the machine doing the creating of the filesuystem (there is no central authority that hands out identifiers like they do for Ethernet addresses)...
> ) in Drive > "/dev/fd0". -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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