Hi!
I have the same problem mounting a zip drive with supermount in stock
kernel of MDK 8.2.
El Lun 26 Ago 2002 18:20, sridhar vaidyanathan escribi�:
> Let me confess that I am not using Mandrake Dist:-). But I applied the
> supermount patch to the kernel. I am posting this mesg here as Mandrake
> supports this utility. I want to know if the users of supermount get the
> following problem.
> When you delete a file that is already existing on a floppy ( not created
> during this boot on this machine), does the space occupied by the file get
> reclaimed? I tried creating files and deleting them without rebooting the
> machine. This works fine. The problem is only with files that are already
> on the floppy.
> I have also narrowed down the problem to be that of the usage counter of
> the inode of that file being 2 instead of 1 when the file is deleted. So
> the space doesn't get reclaimed. My kernel is 2.4.0 and I would like to
> know if Mandrake users face the same problem.If it has been patched , any
> pointers to it would be appreciated
> -sridhar
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