Unix Basics: Disk Organisation

marm.mm at t-online.de marm.mm at t-online.de
Wed Aug 10 06:42:06 UTC 2005


Hi,

The handbook is really great !!! Good work. But there's is maybe an
error in the chapter disk organisation. In the first sentence you write
: 

... find files is the filename. Filenames are -->case-sensitive<---,
which means that readme.txt and README.TXT are two seperate files. Yes
that is conditionally correct. You surely known what I mean, because
mounting a msdos filesystem theres no such problem (I call it problem,
because the people using FreeBSD the first time, think "shit why dont
recognizes FreeBSD readme.txt", but the user means README.txt). I
suggest to add this comment (And also write that this a exception), and
that users should not acclimate this (not acclimate to type
case-insensitive sutff). I think users should know everything about the
system (and every exception), because If they found the problem, they
think "this shit handbook, has bugs".





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