At 08:30 AM 2/10/00 -0500, reg hughson wrote:
>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?
Yes.
>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.
Sort of. I thinkof it as "mounts the filesystem" rather than the "media."
The kernel caches updates to the fielsystem, rather than writing them
immediately to the physical media. This is why you sometimes need to run the
"sync" command. umounting also syncs.
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