Where is my 2G? - MC

[Patton Echols]

On 04/12/2007 12:22 AM, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Patton Echols wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
>
> Patton,
>
> Please see my response in another of Brian's emails on this subject.  I 
> am working on being clear in my technical writing, and so I hope that I 
> have presented the issues well enough that someone new to the subject 
> can understand.  Please give me any feedback you have on issues or 
> concepts you think are unclear in that reply.
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt
>
>
>   
Ok, I see that answer. The one where you talk about finding the data at 
the .  If I understand you correctly, the design behavior is: if you 
attempt to copy to an unmounted drive, the data will be copied to the 
mount point.  Is that right?  Your post does not actually say that, but 
that's what I infer from what you did say. 'Course, how does the system 
know what the mount point is if the drive is not mounted?

I guess that is one thing that is hard as a NOOB to linux.  There are 
conventions that are unknown to new folks, and what you rarely get in an 
answer is:  . . .the software is designed to XxXxX, so when you do 
YyYyY, you are getting that result, its not a bug . . ."  I fully 
realize that the folks who read and post here are not obliged to answer 
at all, let alone cater to my ignorance.  But when I get an answer that 
is more than a how to, it has pointers to *why*, then I really 
appreciate it.  That helps me learn.

Thanks for your interest

P