From: eelco@dutiai.tudelft.nl (Eelco Essenberg) Subject: [SLS1.01] Weird behaviour on a mounted DOS partition Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 11:41:28 GMT
Hello out there!
I'm running SLS1.01, and I got the following problem.
Linux is installed on a 130MB efs2 partition (efs2 v0.2d). I recently mounted
a DOS partition as follows:
"mount -v -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /msdos"
i.e., /dev/hdb1 is a DOS drive, and /msdos is an empty directory in my Linux
file system.
While I was looking in a directory on the DOS partition, I tried (maybe
somewhat foolishly :-)) to create a symbolic link on the DOS partition:
"ln -sf xview3l3.tgz xview3l3.tar.z"
This obviously wasn't going to work (and it didn't), but had a rather nasty
side effect: the original file (xview3l3.tgz) had disappeared from my HD,
both under Linux and under DOS.
Can anybody explain please?
Greetings from the Netherlands,
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Eelco Essenberg | not getting it right."
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