ob_kook, it seems you might have a little misunderstanding about the difference between disks, partitions, and filesystems, and how applications see these things. If I'm being presumptious, my apologies in advance. I've discovered that many people have the same misunderstanding.
A simplistic view is that for each disk, there might be one or more partitions, and for each partition, there is a filesystem. A filesystem is essentially just a database that keeps track of its contents, which are files and more directories. Each directory can have more files and directories and so on. There's more to it than that, but that's the basic idea. All but some key utilities see only whats inside the filesystem, which are files and directories, as these are returned by the operating system when applications ask. Slimserver, being just a normal application, asks the operating system for a list of files and directories from the root of the music folder. It doesn't care about partitions, or how many disks there are in your system, or what size each disk is (it could find out, if it cared or needed to) - it just cares about files and directories. Slimserver looks in the root music folder, gets a list of files, and the list of directories. It examines some key data about each file it cares about (ie. music files), and stores that information in its own database. It also descends into each found directory and repeats the process. As should be obvious now, it doesn't need to ask how large the disk is, or how large each partition is - it only cares about what most applications would care about, and that is files and directories within the filesystem (aka. volume, C drive, /usr/local, etc.). Consider that you can create a very small partition on a very large disk, and create a very small filesystem within that small parition. Only the list of files and directories is what's important to most applications. Hope this helps a bit. -- MrC _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
