on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:01:37PM +1100, Brian May (bam@debian.org) wrote: > >>>>> "Gong" == Gong Zeng <gong_zeng@yahoo.com> writes: > > Gong> However, if the swapping of floppies are far and few in > Gong> between and okay with mounting/umounting whenever you change > Gong> the floppy (like myself), just issue the command: > > Just *never* *ever* forget and eject the floppy disk before umounting > it... You can (help) avoid this problem by specifying 'sync' as an fstab option for your floppy. Writes will be done synchronously, meaning they're started immediately. Good news: if the drive light is out, you can pop the floppy. Bad news: you've got to wait for writes to complete (asynch, the default, buffers writes). E.g.: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,sync,user,exec 0 0 The other option is to use an automounter, somehow that's always seemed more trouble than it's worth. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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