Drive letters. How quaint.
Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
Submitted 7 hours ago by JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
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db2@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Windows. How quaint.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The Linux approach did take some getting used to, of course, but mounting drives to folders just makes too much sense. The only qualm I’ve had with it is if the drive doesn’t get mounted and stuff gets written to that folder, which, AFAIK, isn’t possible in windows.
Also, tbf (and balanced), windows also supports mounting drives to folders.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Interesting read but I can’t think of much of a reason to ever use nonstandard drive letters except to maybe hide malware or something.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decision from the 1980s.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yeah but as file explorer and even powershell can’t use the mount that 27th drive mounted to +:/ isn’t going to be very usable
Saganaki@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
One (contrived) example would be to have a drive that doesn’t have any installed file system filters on it. Filters being the hooks that windows, antivirus, etc have that intercept file writes and such. Could make it much faster on windows for that use-case. I can see custom software using that drive.
Contrived? Definitely. But potentially useful. I can see it working similarly to something MS has in testing which is the file system thing that is super fast but is limited in features—can’t seem to find it atm…
lordnikon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
you can also mount it to a directory just like in POSIX systems
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 52 minutes ago
So? Who cares? Drive letters were always a dumb idea.
Also, obligatory “get your butt off of windows, switch to Linux.”