floppy disk inconsistency on reboot

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Sun Nov 6 00:35:13 UTC 2005


Just a note here about floppy disks that y'all probably know, but caught
me off-guard.

If you use the graphical mechanisms (nautilus) for copying files to a
floppy disk, the files will not be transferred if you reboot the system
from the Desktop->LogOut menu item.  

I think that this could be done logically:
	if (disk is mounted && runlevel == 6)
		sync floppy disk
		unmount floppy

Right now, if you don't "unmount" the floppy, your files will not
actually be on the disk.

Sean




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