on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:01:37PM +1100, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "Gong" == Gong Zeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gong> However, if the swapping of floppies are far and few in > Gong> between and okay with mounting/umounting whenever you change > Gong> the floppy (like myself), just issue the command: > > Just *never* *ever* forget and eject the floppy disk before umounting > it...
You can (help) avoid this problem by specifying 'sync' as an fstab
option for your floppy. Writes will be done synchronously, meaning
they're started immediately. Good news: if the drive light is out, you
can pop the floppy. Bad news: you've got to wait for writes to
complete (asynch, the default, buffers writes).
E.g.:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,sync,user,exec 0 0
The other option is to use an automounter, somehow that's always seemed
more trouble than it's worth.
Peace.
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