Re: Floppy Mounting Problems
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> 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?
Did you try umounting /floppy? i had this problem when i was playing
around with smbmount (stupid !@)#' $(%^&* characters in the sharenames)
(literally those characters, especially &, ', and space) and it would
fail and leave the directory wedged... IIRC umount fixed it.
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