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Re: Okay, that's too much now!

From Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Okay, that's too much now!
Date 2015-09-06 22:40 +0200
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On 09/06/2015 11:18 AM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> wrote:
>>
> .......
>> I must be missing something. Why would anybody need to read/write files in the format of another OS?
>>
>> I have Macs and Linux. Whenever I want to transfer something around the house, I use SCP. Around the country, it's usually an email attachment or rsync over SSH. I've never even thought of pulling a disk out of one machine to read it on another. Not since the floppy days, anyway.
>>
>> What have I overlooked? Why does that capability even exist on an OS? Reformatted thumb drives?
>
> You might have a multi-boot system, i.e., several OSes installed...

Yep..I can skip chroot and v-box. I can check file systems and many 
other things without using a flash drive or booting other media and it's 
great for testing upstream.
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Okay, that's too much now! Erik Lauritsen <eriklauritsen@yandex.com> - 2015-09-06 02:50 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-09-06 03:10 +0200
    Re: Okay, that's too much now! Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk> - 2015-09-06 11:40 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-09-06 03:10 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 03:50 +0200
    Re: Okay, that's too much now! Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-09-06 04:50 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 06:40 +0200
        Re: Okay, that's too much now! Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2015-09-06 17:20 +0200
          Re: Okay, that's too much now! Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 17:50 +0200
            Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 20:10 +0200
              Re: Okay, that's too much now! Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 20:20 +0200
                Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 20:30 +0200
                Re: Okay, that's too much now! Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 22:40 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 07:30 +0200
        Re: Okay, that's too much now! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-09-06 10:00 +0200
          Re: Okay, that's too much now! Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-09-06 11:20 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-09-06 09:40 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> - 2015-09-06 16:00 +0200
      Re: Okay, that's too much now! "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-09-08 16:10 +0200
  Re: Okay, that's too much now! Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2015-09-07 13:00 +0200

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