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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mount questions
Message-ID: <549@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 00:27:49 GMT
References: <34939@bbn.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <34939@bbn.COM>, by cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell):
> I've been fiddling around with my WB disk icons and the mountlist and
> such and I have a couple of baby questions (these all with 1.3 on a 2000):
> 
> a) Where does "RAM:" get its name?  I've tried rename from workbench,
>    but when I reboot ram comes back as "RAM DISK:".  [This worked fine
>    for the Recoverable ram, disk -- a raname to "RRD:" and I no longer
>    have to see 'ramb0:']

     Use "Relabel RAM: RAM" in your Startup-Sequence file.  Remember that
the RAM: disk goes away everytime you reboot.  It gets recreated the first
time it is referenced.  So include a reference to RAM: (such as copy echo
to RAM:") in your startup sequence.  Then relabel it.  The new name will
last until you boot the system again.

> b) In my mountlist, df2: is configured to be a 5.25" floppy... well,
>    it ain't.  It's a Normal 3.5" guy.  Why does it work?  (it certainly
>    _seems_ to work fine!)

     Are you sure you're mounting df2:?  It's my understanding that the
system will automatically recognize 3.5 inch disks without a mount command.
If you subsequently try to mount df2: I would expect it to tell you "device
already mounted" (or words to that effect).

--Fabbian Dufoe
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