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There are three possibles approaches concerning the persistence of auto-mounted drives:
- (current) Do not do anything. Let the user set up their filesystem structure the way they like.
- Persist
drives. This works from any folder because dosbox-staging always looks in its own folder before checking in the current directory. I've tested running the dosbox-staging executable from a different drive via the command line and it detects thedrivesfolder without issues. I haven't seen any mention in the documentation of this behavior (but I'm asking upstream devs). - Persist
resources/drives. I don't like this solution because the files inresources/drivesmay be updated later by upstream developers, but it does allow to exploit a documented feature, and allows customization of the default "ESSENTIALS" drive.
Documentation of the automount feature is present in the default configuration file:
# automount: Mount 'drives/[c]' directories as drives on startup, where [c] is a lower-case
# drive letter from 'a' to 'y' (enabled by default). The 'drives' folder can be
# provided relative to the current directory or via built-in resources.
# Mount settings can be optionally provided using a [c].conf file along-side
# the drive's directory, with content as follows:
# [drive]
# type = dir, overlay, floppy, or cdrom
# label = custom_label
# path = path-specification, ie: path = %path%;c:\tools
# override_drive = mount the directory to this drive instead (default empty)
# verbose = true or false
# readonly = true or false
Personally, I would like to have 2 implemented.
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