Re: Annoyances-floppies

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 10:55, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> 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.

On your planet, perhaps :-) 

Here the only reason Linux users ever insert a diskette is because a 
Windows user gave them one with a file on (or they need to put a file 
on one to give to a Windows user. Or to use an emergency recovery disk.

Developers, perhaps. Users, never.

///Peter