David Wright a écrit : > On Sat 05 Mar 2016 at 21:18:55 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> David Wright a écrit : >>> You can't create files on an unmounted filesystem. >> Of course you can, with the adequate tools. For instance mtools for FAT, >> e2tools for ext2, ntfs-3g (previoulsy ntfsprogs) for NTFS. > > Thank you for taking that sentence completely out of context.
This sentence does not need any context. It is either right or wrong by itself. > The tools you mention manipulate devices or images just as any > program might manipulate a device/file whose structure it is > familiar with, and not through the operating system. So what ? After you mount the filesystem, the file you created with such a tool is visible. It's just a regular file like any other. > So those > "files" are irrelevant to a discussion of mount points and > visibility Your sentence was as irrelevant. > (I wasn't aware that ntfs-3g worked that way: I thought it just > mounted NTFS filesystems like any other.) Actually the tools which were previously packaged in ntfsprogs have been included into ntfs-3g, but I don't think they are used by the ntfs-3g filesystem.
