On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 08:32 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Just a note here about floppy disks that y'all probably know, but caught > > me off-guard. > > > > If you use the graphical mechanisms (nautilus) for copying files to a > > floppy disk, the files will not be transferred if you reboot the system > > from the Desktop->LogOut menu item. > > > > I think that this could be done logically: > > if (disk is mounted && runlevel == 6) > > sync floppy disk > > unmount floppy > > > > Right now, if you don't "unmount" the floppy, your files will not > > actually be on the disk. *nix buffers filesystem reads & writes. The buffer will be completely flushed when you do one of 2 things. 1) Umount the file system or 2) do a 'clean' shutdown. This is the reason you are told to NEVER remove a floppy until it has been dismounted. I am a bit surprised that the write did not occur when you did a clean reboot after using nautilus to write to the floppy, but then I use a command line 99+% of the time and thus have never gotten into that situation. > > > > Sean > I don't want to me a wise-guy but what you have noticed is the > difference between linux (or Unix) and Windows. In the latter case > floppy disks are not mounted. So if in Linux if you are having > problems with copying files to floppies use the mtools suite. > Don't mount the floppy but in this case execute: mkcopy file.test a:/ > mdir, mdel, mformat, etc. also exist. > -- > > ======================================================================= > It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. > -- Rene Descartes > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 >
