floppy disk inconsistency on reboot

[Mike McCarty]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 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.

I'm afraid I must completely disagree with you. *ALL* mounted file
systems should be flushed and unmounted on clean shut down, including
floppies, NFS mounted systems, USB discs, etc.

Mike
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