From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:25:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090720142555.d0d5549f.eekee57@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f403460db18e34c45f918f481e8c71e@quanstro.net>
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:50:08 -0400
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > & [what] does mkext stand for), and
>
> make extract, i assume.
>
> >
> > file /bin/mkfs
> > /bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist
> >
> > Dude, like, huh?
>
> you must have missed the first few lines of the man page
>
> disk/mkfs [-aprvxU] [-d root] [-n name] [-s source] [-u
> users] [-z n] proto ...
>
> disk/mkext [-d name] [-u] [-h] [-v] [-x] [-T] file ...
>
> this means mkfs is in /bin/disk plan 9 uses subdirectories
> in /bin. actually in the fs, mkfs is in the directory
> /$objtype/bin/disk/
Ah, cheers. I do rather feel like I've been recommended to use a c-stoff/t-stoff powered rocket hopper where a family car would suffice though.
--
Ethan Grammatikidis
Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-20 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-19 16:24 Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-19 18:05 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19 18:16 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-19 18:34 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-20 1:32 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 9:55 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-20 11:36 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 11:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 13:25 ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2009-07-20 14:00 ` Steve Simon
2009-07-20 15:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 15:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 15:19 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-20 18:30 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 22:25 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-20 22:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 22:51 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-20 22:56 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-21 0:31 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-23 2:10 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-20 9:32 ` cej
2009-07-20 11:04 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2014-04-17 12:53 ` arisawa
2014-04-17 12:55 ` erik quanstrom
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