
I was supposed to fix the weather damage to my halloween decorations this morning after I missed yesterday recovering from locking myself out of my home. now this morning is gone and I have to get ready for a halloween folk and english dance this afternoon. Lennart, sorry you responded so quickly you did not see my retraction, though most of your response is disquieting. I am running a debian based system, and IIRC, gnome (though this ignorant person thought gnome was the display manager and not related to whatever would cause the selection of automounter. maybe (washing my mouth/keyboard out with soap) there is something to apple and locking everything down to make all systems perform the same. as you have seen by now, I was aware of linux having to catch up and retro develop drivers. <pre>--Carey</pre>
On 10/27/2024 9:42 AM CDT Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 08:07:04AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG wrote:
Thank you again Lennart, this ignorant mainframer is slowly being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.
Did IBM mainframes ever get around to using ascii or are they still ebdbic?
1. Linux (the whole thing, not the kernal) should handle random hardware as well as any major competitiors, at least windows and IOS.
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Now for the automounting, certainly some systems will, some won't. https://superuser.com/questions/1775441/usb-stick-without-partition-maybe-bu... says Debian running gnome automounted a USB drive without partitions for them. A beaglebone running Debian but not gnome did not. So it depends on the automounter being used whether it supports recognizing and mounting unpartitioned drives that are inserted.
Interestingly it also appears in that post that parted does in fact recognize a drive with just a filesystem. Of course gparted is not parted, it's a gui wrapper around parted and some other utilities. Perhaps gparted just failed to implement support for something parted already did. Or it is a question of the version of parted. Older parted did filesystem stuff, and they decided to remove all that in 3.x releases. Seems someone decided that parted should not do filesystem stuff, only partition stuff.
-- Len Sorensen