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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-04-12 18:49:31 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-04-12 18:49:31 +0100
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guestfs(3): Fix documentation for drive letters.
We can now get drive letter mappings through the inspection API.
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diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
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@@ -641,16 +641,15 @@ you might find a Windows configuration file referring to a path like
C<c:\windows\system32>. When the filesystem is mounted in libguestfs,
that directory might be referred to as C</WINDOWS/System32>.
-Drive letter mappings are outside the scope of libguestfs. You have
-to use libguestfs to read the appropriate Windows Registry and
-configuration files, to determine yourself how drives are mapped (see
-also L<hivex(3)> and L<virt-inspector(1)>).
+Drive letter mappings can be found using inspection
+(see L</INSPECTION> and L</guestfs_inspect_get_drive_mappings>)
-Replacing backslash characters with forward slash characters is also
-outside the scope of libguestfs, but something that you can easily do.
+Dealing with separator characters (backslash vs forward slash) is
+outside the scope of libguestfs, but usually a simple character
+replacement will work.
-Where we can help is in resolving the case insensitivity of paths.
-For this, call L</guestfs_case_sensitive_path>.
+To resolve the case insensitivity of paths, call
+L</guestfs_case_sensitive_path>.
=head3 ACCESSING THE WINDOWS REGISTRY