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Does Windows Mount Drives Like Linux?

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dude8604

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You may already know this, but I just found out, so no flaming please. Thanks!

I was looking through the registry on my new WinXP Home computer. I found two folders about mounted drives in the registry called "MountedDevices" and "MountedDevice1". Both folders had the same registry keys. The keys listed looked like how Linux mounts drives. Here is an example: "/DosDevices/C:". Here is a link to a screenshot I took of the registry editor. Does that mean that Windows is based on the same drive mounting concept as Linux? Just wondering.
 
Every OS has to mount devices so that they're available to you, it's just for some god awfull reason until recently MS thought drive letters were a good way to identify different storage devices.

And now with =>Win2K you can mount partitions inside of folders on NTFS partitions, in much the same way unix mounts all devices under /. You still need 1 drive letter for the OS because they havn't gotten rid of it yet, but you can have C:\DriveD c:\Blah be different partitions mounted in those directories.

Slowlyl but surely, Windows is working more and more like unix =)
 
Slowlyl but surely, Windows is working more and more like unix =)

all you have to do is install cygwin and you'll barely tell the difference
 
all you have to do is install cygwin and you'll barely tell the difference

Well that's cheating =)

I meant MS keeps adding things to Windows that have been in unix for years. Pretty soon notepad will have a 'vim' mode =)
 


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Slowlyl but surely, Windows is working more and more like unix =) >>





HAHAHA...

This used to be my SIGNATURE:

"Given enough time and money... Microsoft will eventually invent a UNIX. " - Quote from ME
 
"Given enough time and money... Microsoft will eventually invent a UNIX. " - Quote from ME

Haha. All their "innovation" amounts to is putting 32-bit color icons on things other people invented. I'd be surprised if anyone, other than SMB, could come up with anything widely used and accepted that MS came up with all on their own.
 


<< I meant MS keeps adding things to Windows that have been in unix for years. Pretty soon notepad will have a 'vim' mode =) >>



We can only hope!
 


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<< I meant MS keeps adding things to Windows that have been in unix for years. Pretty soon notepad will have a 'vim' mode =) >>



We can only hope! >>


Hehe... knowing the way MSFT works, notepad will change from VIM into Emacs rather quickly 😉
 


<< Haha. All their "innovation" amounts to is putting 32-bit color icons on things other people invented. I'd be surprised if anyone, other than SMB, could come up with anything widely used and accepted that MS came up with all on their own. >>




heh .. the recycle bin .. thats about it ..
-neural


[edit] wait, i just thought about it .. isnt that stolen from Mac OS, like "trash bin" or something , not a mac user but that seems right .. if so then i really cant think of anything they innovated heh .. funny .. [/edit]
 
heh .. the recycle bin .. thats about it ..
-neural



Nope.. that was on MacOS for a NUMBER OF YEARS before Windows 95 even came out..where it made its first appearance in Windows.
 
they invented the registry.

I believe AIX has one, but I'm not sure if it was first or if it's even the same thing...
 
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