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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <q5OTf-15a-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <q5zUe-538-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <q5JTz-2tP-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <q5KmB-31l-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <q5My6-6js-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <q5MHM-6uE-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | PC Repair |
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. -- Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - EXT4 - AMD64 at sda10 Registered Linux User #380263
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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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