On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > It is not supermount, it seems to be the general FAT "feature". Just try > to mount any FAT filesystem directly, (re-)move some files from/to it > and watch df output. Yes, but I think (not at home now) that with normal mount you can at least still write to the floppies again once you deleted some files. With supermount you can not, the floppy stays full and you cannot write anything to it, untill you do a format.
> > AFAIK there is no easy way to get free space summary in FAT except for > traversing all directory entries. So may be it has been omitted > intentionally as sort of optimization. possible, but it should at least let me write, even if it does not know if there is still free space. > > What has Windows to do with problems in Mandrake? Nothing, but the kernel panic when writing a floppy is, I have to agree with this message, rather reminscent of certain older versions of another OS. Danny > > > -andrej >
