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Re: Floppy Mounting Problems



Hi!

Brad <lists@anomie.dhs.org> wrote:

> 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.

Maybe help: Look at the Codepages your kernel is
supporting.  You may need some of them for name of
the files in the disk.  Windows 95 uses some of this
Codepages.  Look at

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

In Filesystems I have Codepages 437 and 850 as
modules.  I don't know if you, or even me, will need
the other codepages.

Hope this helps. 

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