Comment Re:Mind Boggling Legacy Junk Still In Win 7 (Score 1) 483
What's wrong with good ole c:? Whenever you read it, you know exactly what the person is talking about. If you go with hda3 or somesuch, you're not going to know if you're talking about a swap file or what have you. Linux is unnecessarily complicated on this point. I've gone through hell trying to get my flash drive working on different linux machines at work because they aren't set up to mount sda volumes or somesuch. Then I couldn't fix the problem because the only guy who knew the su password was out of town. Went home early that day -- so I guess it wasn't all bad.
What's wrong with C:? What is C:? What is E:? Is it a mapped drive? Is it a floppy? CD-ROM? Is it my USB keyring? C: isn't always the system drive on your Windows machine - I've had systems that for whatever reason had the G: or D: drive as the system drive. What do you mean C: isn't actually the drive itself? What do I do if I need to access the block device directly? What do you mean...