CDs mount to volume name

Karsten Fischer kfischer at bfki.net
Thu Feb 9 09:57:47 UTC 2006


Am Donnerstag, den 09.02.2006, 08:29 +0100 schrieb Ralf Corsepius:
> > And how should I explain it to a
> > customer: "Yes, of course you see the the CD-ROM and its content on your
> > desktop, and yes, the CD has a descriptive name (label) like "Tax2005",
> > and no, you won't find it within your Filesystem , you have to guess its
> > device..."
> You are mixing up medium with contents. Both a separate topics.

Do I? Lets have a look. The content is the data on the CD, correct? The
medium is the CD, still right? The CD-Drive is just a means of getting
the content from the medium. There is a huge difference between going to
a newsstand and ask for a newspaper and going to a newsstand and ask
for, let's say, the New York Times.

--
Karsten Fischer




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