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From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: fstab-like file?
Message-ID: <3864@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 22:46:07 GMT
References: <10197@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3848@cbmvax.UUCP> <10247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris (Mike (I'm in love with my car) Meyer) writes:
>
>I'm keeping the hard disk names (in Mountlist) as "device" names: dh0,
>dh1, etc. I use the "name" argument to format as the "name" of the
>device. Normally, I can't use that name until I do something on the
>device in question, after the mount. I'd like something to fix that,
>so that I can start using the name I fed format after the mount
>immmediately. That way, if I change thing the useage of the drive
>layout (move binaries to the large disk, and make the small disk
>scratch, or some such), all I have to do is relabel them - nothing
>else needs to change.


How about logical assignments.  That's what I use.  I used to have my
hard drive as one normal fs partition.  It was assigned the logical H:.
(assign H: dh0:)

All other assignments, paths, etc. referenced H: rather than dh0:.
(like  path h:mytools h:devtools add,  and  assign INCLUDE: H:Include)

Last week, I reprepped it as a small normal fs partition and the rest as
a large FFS partition.  I restored all of my stuff to the new ff0:
FFS partition.   All I had to do was change my  assign h: dh0:  to
assign H: ff0:.  Everything else references my stuff using the H: logical.

And the H: logical is nice and short when accessing the partition from
the shell.  

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