chris evans wrote: > Better to label your drive volumes to something other than obscure or > drive letters, like DATA, or your name. that way when you in a fdisk > program or other OS you can see what is what and not cause an > accident. Curious, I thought that the DOS will only point C: to the > first primary found?
All labels are unique and contain the drive letter. Do you consider DOS, W2K and Warp4 to be obscure? Also every partition has a directory of the form "1_Name_X" where X is the drive letter. The one forces it to sort at the top. So from any HDD utility or directory listing I know the physical position of each partition. I have an additional challenge. All my HDDs are front panel plug-in. So I have to give each HDD a unique ID that is seen by HDD utilities. If I was cloning or cleaning a drive and got it reversed that would not be good. I have had a HDD utility swap drives 1 and 2 on it's display. That is rare, but it did happen. Ray ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
