On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, reg hughson wrote:
> Quick question...
>
> I mount a floppy, do what I have to do, eject that floppy and insert a
> different floppy, but the file manager insists it is still looking at the first
> floppy. I have to unmount and then re-mount with the new floppy in. Is this
> normal? If it is, does this mean that the mount command actually mounts the
> media as opposed to mounting the drive? My zip drive works the same way.
That is quite normal.
When the device is mounted files are copied to memory, as soon as you
do 'ls' then the filesystem checks to make sure the floppy and the
memory contain the same data, now if you eject the floppy then the
data medium has changed, so mount will barf at you.
>
> rh
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