Marty wrote: > It's how the file system on Linux works. > Linux doesn't sense much urgency to synching the disk. If this bugs you, > then use the synch option in /etc/fstab for your floppy drive, > and Linux will emulate windows behavior.
Or, you can do something like this (assuming your floppy is mounted on '/mnt/floppy'): cp <file> /mnt/floppy; sync The 'sync' command forces changed blocks to be written to disk. Although, I have to agree that a 30-45 sec lag time for a deferred write is unacceptable, and should be changed. Paul -- Paul D. Boyle | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, X-ray Structural Facility | phone: (919) 515-7362 Department of Chemistry - Box 8204 | FAX: (919) 515-8909 North Carolina State University | http://www.xray.ncsu.edu Raleigh, NC, 27695-8204 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
