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.
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.
I'm afraid I must completely disagree with you. *ALL* mounted file
systems should be flushed and unmounted on clean shut down, including
floppies, NFS mounted systems, USB discs, etc.
Mike
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