On Sat June 5 2004 07:29, Michael Walters wrote: <snip> > umount: floppy is not mounted (according to mtab). > > I then did a umount /floppy and umounted successfully.
<snip> > So as one of the writers to this mailing list said, I indeed can mount a > floppy from any directory. But the umount command must supply a complete > path. Although this is true, a nice "shortcut" is that mount/umount checks /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab for existing entries so you don't have to specify all the arguments (i.e. mount <source device> <mount point>) for pre-defined devices/mount points. For example, you can usually just type mount /cdrom and it will just work. If the necessary information was not already in /etc/fstab, you would have to type: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom. The former is much nicer. :-) > Thanks everyone for giving me confidence and fun in linux. Thanks for sticking in there and allowing yourself to become empowered! There's a definite learning curve, but it sure feels good afterwards. :-) Have fun! Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
