Mike Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 11:18 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Mike Hearn mike@navi.cx writes:
- We don't add any device symlinks. Some programs need these
eg d:: -> /dev/cdrom
That should never be needed on a standard setup. If you know of a case where it's required that should be considered a bug.
I thought some programs used them to determine free disk space
Speaking of free disk space detection.... I have had it happen with at least 2 different programs (I can document more fully, just not this second) that if I have a 20 GB partition ("games", 6GB free) mounted in my home directory (/home/holly/games, but /home itself has only a few hundred MB free), and try to install an app to Y:\games\app_name, I get a warning (or in one case a stop) that there is not enough drive space to install the app because there is not enough space on Y:\ (i.e., in /home), but there is, in reality, enough space in Y:\games (i.e., in the mounted partition). Whether the program will allow me to install seems to depend on whether it's old and thinks it knows everything, or not so old, and is willing to let me override what it thinks it sees in terms of drive space; if the program allows me to install anyway, the program naturally installs fine, since there is enough space.
Now naturally, this could be solved by creating a direct symlink to /games in dosdevices, but that's an extra step I don't always feel like being bothered with (let's say I'm in a hurry), especially when the partition is mounted into /home, which is automatically symlinked in dosdevices anyway, so the drive is already accessible via a "short path" (y:\games); shortening the path to just a drive letter isn't necessarily worth the effort.
Sorry to introduce a side issue, but if drive space detection is related to drive detection, I thought I'd mention this so that it doesn't get lost in any adjusted code. This may be thought to be an 'exotic' setup, but I am sure I'm not the only one with mounted data partitions (LVM, actually, but they wouldn't have to be) for easy access, partition size management, and simplified backup.
Holly