Questions about floppy files in Linux...

[tkeller at helpdesk.mso.stratus.com]

>From personal experience, (I think I work too much with windows) I popped
in a blank floppy, mounted it, copied a file to it and then popped it out,
without unmounting it first.  Bad move... when I went to use the floppy it
was blank.  Learned a good lesson about "aggressive caching".

Tim.

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Chuck Noyes wrote:

> 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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