floppy disk inconsistency on reboot

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 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
I don't want to me a wise-guy but what you have noticed is the
difference between linux (or Unix) and Windows. In the latter case
floppy disks are not mounted. So if in Linux if you are having
problems with copying files to floppies use the mtools suite.
Don't mount the floppy but in this case execute: mkcopy file.test a:/
mdir, mdel, mformat, etc. also exist.
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