True. But to actually access a file, you must first do the mount command. That's where I got confused by the word "unmounted". No big deal, I'm sometimes easily confused.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <CAAJSdjg9-uGM+ay=ubiuyu3ztdmkxn+c8mlnoevm86kfehp...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 11/25/2013 > at 09:20 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: > > >I don't understand this. In general in UNIX, you cannot access any of > >the entities in an "unmounted file system" (other than some special > >utilities when running "root"). > > You can mount a file system without being root; TDIITD. Doing so > requires that you know where it is, just as coding UNIT= and VOL=SER= > does. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
