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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: MS Access
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:11:02 +0100
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On 2024-08-16, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:09:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 13/08/2024 23:21, John Dallman wrote:
>>
>>> In article <v9gk4h$30as$2@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
>>> D'Oliveiro) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> <technical nitpick>  Sometimes (Raspberry Pi) that's all the hardware
>> will boot off...
>
> 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.

-- 
Nuno Silva