Hello Curtis, I agree with you, that the learning curve is well worth it and that I feel really good after all the hard work.
Thanks for your encouragement. Michael ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On June 5, 2004 10:18 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
