Re: MS Access

On 16/08/2024 09:11, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2024-08-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:09:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 13/08/2024 23:21, John Dallman wrote:
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In article <v9gk4h$30as$2@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
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Mount points only work on NTFS volumes, though. So you cannot use them
to mix and match other filesystem types, the way you can on Linux.

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There is a shortage of other filesystem types in practical usage on
Windows. FAT and exFAT get used for (micro-)sd cards and USB sticks,
but nobody with any sense at all uses them on hard disks or SSDs.
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<technical nitpick>  Sometimes (Raspberry Pi) that's all the hardware
will boot off...

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The Raspberry Pi runs Linux. That should be able to boot off any kind of
filesystem that Linux supports.

 Maybe things are different in UEFI platforms, but, at least from what
I've seen through the years, Linux is able to get a system operational
using filesystems that Linux supports.
 Loading and booting Linux itself is an entirely different matter,
something has to read, load and execute the binary. It's entirely
possible that the hardware - or its firmware - can only do this if the
Linux binary is in FAT or exFAT.
 

Which is the case for a Pi. The GPU chipset that does the booting can only understand (V?)FAT to load and run a [Linux image and its basic configuration files]...
So you end up with a small FAT partition that is *only* used to boot, and a larger EXT4 partition for everything else, typically. If booting linux, anyway.
more /etc/fstab
PARTUUID=778a9e44-01  /boot/firmware  vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=778a9e44-02  /                        ext4    defaults,noatime 0       1
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