Questions about floppy files in Linux...

[Chuck Noyes]

On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> 1. Why is it that when I mount a floppy on /mnt/floppy that I list files
> ls -a and get the last files stored even though that disk is no longer
> inside the machine? Is Linux caching directories? Is there a way to
> clear this?
> 
> 2. what is the specific procedure for mounting an msdos (with long
> filenames) floppy? (Actually, I copied an RPM file downloaded on another
> windows9x  machine and want to read it.)

Use mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 <target-mountpoint>   assuming you've enabled vfat
in your kernel.

 > 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
> Kevin
> 
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