Drives$ does not display drives Lb5-351x32 Linux & Pi

[metro]

print Drives$

gives me /

on both platforms

64 bit Linux , the same

[Chris Iverson]

May I ask what you're expecting it to do?

Because the answer of "/" is technically correct.

On Windows, the individual drive letters listed are all roots of their own drives.

On Linux, EVERYTHING descends from ONE root point - "/".

On Linux, drives get mounted into the current virtual filesystem, and act as part of it.

[metro]

Aug 24, 2020 19:50:37 GMT -5 Chris Iverson said:

May I ask what you're expecting it to do?

Because the answer of "/" is technically correct.

On Windows, the individual drive letters listed are all roots of their own drives.

On Linux, EVERYTHING descends from ONE root point - "/".

On Linux, drives get mounted into the current virtual filesystem, and act as part of it.

yep, you are correct Chris I had forgotten in Linux everything is a file. I was expecting

/dev/sdb2    2099200  106956621  104857422    50G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb3  106956800  123734015   16777216     8G Linux swap
/dev/sdb4  123734016  438306815  314572800   150G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb5  438306816 1953523711 1515216896 722.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb6       2048    2099199    2097152     1G BIOS boot

seems ya never too old to learn , it's just how long you remember it that changes

[metro]

I'm stumped! How do we get drive and folder/files info with lb5-351(32) LINUX
running "testfiles.bas" using root ("/") as the path I only get files

add to the path "home/myusername" I get a list of files but no sub-folders, I know there are sub folders though.......

changing to"/media/myusername/" should list the drives I have but I get 0 files and 0 subdirectories

using the windows version with wine files "Z:\media\laurie", "*.*", dir$() shows me the drives (as folders)

 EDIT: maybe it's a permissions thing and I have to mount the drives then chown . After that edit fstab to set them up to auto mount at startup