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Arainachtoday at 3:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not while it's mounted. This is akin to complaining that on Linux if you unplug a flash drive and plug in a different one that second drive could "steal" /mnt/sdb1 or whatever.


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Filligreetoday at 4:20 PM

People did complain about that, which is why on Linux today that mount would use the disk UUID or label instead.

So it’s fixed. What’s windows’ excuse? :-)

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hulitutoday at 4:34 PM

Linux is broken from this point of view. Inserting an USB drive before boot breaks booting .

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