What's a good use-case for this option?
>>108716610not having faggy drive letter autism.
>>108716610User profiles on a separate partition from the OS, while still being C:\Users
lol, they finally added an option to mount somewhere else than DOS letters?it only took 40 years
>>108716643https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/reparse-pointsit has been a thing for a long time. drive letters are just legacy dos cruft, you don't need to use them as well, desu, if you know the NT or DOS device path. that's how this works anyway.
I'm using it on my home server to mount a drive (really two drives - an SSD and a HDD - that are being mirrored) that only holds a virtual hard disk, which is attached to a VM.
>>108716643>finallyThey had that in Windows 2000 you big retard.
>people raging about drive lettersSince when has this been a thing?
>>108716676because they're fucking retarded. same reason I hate /dev/sd* bullshit identifiers in devtmpfs.
>this frightens and enrages the winjeet
>>108716682The drive letters or the people bitching about them?
>>108716682>I hate /dev/sd* bullshit identifiers in devtmpfsAh yes when I plug a drive in I want my system to shove it into some random directory like a fucking schizo.
>>108716610always have that specific drive mounted to the same specific folder?sometime i plug an usb and it has a different letter than before because something else took it.
>>108716621Holy projection, filesystem purists are the real autists. C:\ and D:\ drives just make sense, they are separate.
visitors might see your computer they see its not too old but they might ask questions if see five drive letters
>>108716867>they are separate.they aren't though.
>>108716754yes. /dev/disk/by-* is objectively better. sadly it's a userspace udev-ism. sda, sdb, etc are nonsense like drive letters.
>>108716610I do this, since at work the build scripts hardcode paths I just mount a dev drive partition to C:/Source
>>108716610drive letters are inferior in every way. Since you can map a drive letter to any path, should some random application not handle paths, you have no reason to ever use drive letters.One tiny exception is that some malware might not be very good at changing drive letters, possibly halting its infection of your system, but I doubt that anything new would face any issue.
>>108716610You ran out of A: thru Z:
>>108717389Just buy another laptop if you run out of letters.
>>108716643Read the label, retard. You'll still have at least one letter mount.
