Floppy Mounting Problems
I have a stack of floppies that i'm sorting through, and i need to know what's
on them. Some of them, however, aren't formatted. I have know way to know
which ones aren't until i mount them. Every time i try to mount an unformatted
floppy, mount segfaults. Afterwards, if i try to mount another floppy it
says "mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /floppy busy". I can mount a
floppy to other directories, so it must be /floppy that's busy, even
though /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts both show it as not mounted. Further,
i can't remove the floppy module from the kernel.
Eventually i run out of directories to mount to and have to reboot.
This is unacceptable. Any ideas?
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