I'm a little confused. Do I have to mount and unmount /dev/fd0 every time I want to look at a different floppy disk? Is there a less cumbersome way to do this? Thanks. Greg
yup. you need to mount and unmount it each time. The kernel can get rather confused if you take out a floppy w/o unmounting it. Scott On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I'm a little confused. Do I have to mount and unmount /dev/fd0 every time I want to look at a different floppy disk? Is there a less cumbersome way to do this? Thanks.
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On Sunday 17 February 2002 06:27 pm, you wrote:
I'm a little confused. Do I have to mount and unmount /dev/fd0 every time I want to look at a different floppy disk? Is there a less cumbersome way to do this? Thanks.
Greg
Well, this rather depends how you access the floppy. Normally, you would have to mount/unmount the floppy. However,if the floppy has a FAT (MS-DOS) filesystem on it, you can use the mtools package and not mount/unmount each time. Check it out, mtools might do the trick for you. -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
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