Virtual Disk Drives Download

Description:

This archive contains a set of mountable drive images.  Not as fast a a ram drive, but safer for storing data.

Double clicking on on a related image will mount onto the desktop a virtual drive that is directly mapped to the image file so anything saved to a mounted image is saved to the hard drive right away.

The main reason I use them is that BeOS/Haiku's indexes can not be set to search only particular sub-directories.  I use these virtual drives to store data/files that will not show unless I select a mounted virtual disk.

Additionally, as each virtual drive is already formatted in BeFS, so they act just like additional drives added to your computer that can be formatted and renamed if needed by Drive Setup.



Next update will contain more virtual sizes, and instructions on making your own drive image of any rcustom size.

Submitted On:

12 Feb 2010

Submitted By:

Earl_Colby_Pottinger (Earl Colby Pottinger)

Submitted On:

12 Feb 2010

File Size:

111.43 Kb

Downloads:

89

License:

Freeware

File Version:

0.1

File Author:

Earl_Colby_Pottinger

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Comments  

 

0 # RE: Virtual Disk Drives — zenja 2010-02-13 02:03

I really like the concept of Virtual Drives. It neatly solves several multiuser problems (normal desktop users, not servers), and if you can add encryption to the drives (password protected on mounting), you have a winner. This is definitely something I'd like to see included by default in Haiku.

 

 

0 # RE: Virtual Disk Drives — hUMUNGUs 2010-02-13 11:14

I also love this idea. If someone remembers RAD: from the Amiga, that was a neat idea aswell. You could reboot into RAD: instead of the HD or CDRom.

 

 

0 # Nothing Special — Earl Colby Pottinger 2010-02-13 15:40

There is nothing special here, just standard raw image files the you use to download the nightly Haiku on, except I expanded them to larger sizes.

As such I can not add compression or encryption unless it already supported by Haiku already. My skills are not good enough to submit something that will enter Haiku's source code.

However, I have played around with this idea with my RAMDISK code, and if I write a version for Haiku I do plan to add compression and encryption modes.

 

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