Re: Annoyances-floppies

"Daniel C. von Asmuth" <asmuth-8LkvcxCLB6JmR6Xm/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thus quoth David Vehrs on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:19:36PM -0600:
> 1.  automount  (i.e. attempt to mount with first write)
> 2.  sync flag in fstab (i.e. write now, so I can eject whenever)
> 
That's what you would use for floppy with a file system like VFAT, but
Unix users usually write (read) tar of cpio archives directly to (from)
the diskette, so you need neither.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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