Re: Cannot display /etc/fstab

From: cody (deutronium_at_gmx.de)
Date: 06/23/05 

Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:43 +0200

>>The funny thing is that I now opened the file from texteditor by starting
>>the texteditor and chose "file open" and it worked. Then I found a label
>>name in fstab which contained lots of special chars which couldn't
>>properly
>
>>displayed. Then I removed those special chars and replaced it with a valid
>>identifier. After I saved the file it had a normal icon like most other
>>files in /etc and I now could open it with the texteditor without
>>problems.
>>
>>That means that a file which contains special chars/binary content is
>>treatet differenct by the GUI. But how does that work? Does the GUI scan
> the
>>contents *all* files in a folder to determine which icon it shall display
>>for each one?
>
> Something that took me a while to get is that RH does not depend on the
> file
> extension to tell it what sort of a file it is. I found this out with jpg
> files ... RH had no problem working out what they were ... but when I
> transferred them to a windows box, it spat the dummy :)
>
> .. so I think the answer to your question is probably ... yes, that's
> exactly what it does :)

And I always though only Windows would do such funny things.
I will try and add a link to /mnt/floppy/somefile in a folder and see
wheather the OS always tries to access the floppy when I open the folder..
What if I have a 10GB file in a folder? Does the OS scan the whole file to
determine wheather is is ascii or binary??
Oh dear..

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