Re: Annoyances-floppies
David Vehrs <[email protected]>
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Daniel, Come down off the mountain and read the previous emails in the thread. The question was (basically) how to make Linux work more like Windows in regard to floppy mounting and unmounting. Thanks for paying attention. Dave V. On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:55:41AM +0200, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote: > From: "Daniel C. von Asmuth" <asmuth-8LkvcxCLB6JmR6Xm/[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Annoyances] Annoyances-floppies > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:55:41 +0200 > > 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 -- David E Vehrs, System Engineer Aspen Systems [email protected] 3900 Youngfield Street Tel: +01 303 431 4606 Wheat Ridge CO 80033, USA Fax: +01 303 431 7196 http://www.aspsys.com