Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61
OK, Pietro, Martin,
I use console mode, but always shut down via 'poweroff'. I likely removed
the disc and put it safely in its box before not doing a sync or umount.
I could not have done it more wrong! lesson learnt.
Whatever.... that floppy can still not be mounted
Regards
Ian
On 28 Dec 2001, at 13:41, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam,
> >
> > I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not.
> >
> > Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for you
> > in the course of closing things down? It seems on of those things that
> > is going to get forgotten in a rush.
>
> if by "closing things down" you mean shutting down the machine, unix
> does that (it happens correctly only if the floppy is still in the
> drive).
>
> if you mean instead logging out, unix doesn't, because it's multiuser,
> and somebody else might need the mounted floppy.
>
> what kind of user interface you use? gnome has a nice panel applet that
> allows you to mount/umount floppies with a single click, and makes
> things easier. kde must have something like that too. on the console,
> you have only mount and umount.
>
> hope it helps.
>
> pietro.
>
>
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