On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | Hi, | | I did a fresh install over the Xmas break. | | Prior to this I saved all the various conf files to a floppy. | | Now I cannot mount the floppy | | # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy | # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy | # mount -t auto /dev/fdo /floppy | # mount /dev/fd0 | | I am away from the machine at present, so excuse my syntax from memory, | but notices relect such things as cannot find msdos file table, blocks | ........ lots of verbage, but no mounting. | | I assume the disk has died. Is there anything that I should try.
After running the mount command to mount the floppy you can run 'mount' (no arguments) to display the current mount table. You should see the disk listed there along with the correct filesystem type. | I note that when you copy a file to /floppy it seems to be incredibly | quick. Is it in fact written to the floppy at the same time as it | appears on /floppy ? No. As Jor-el said it is cached. This is why killing the power of a *nix system is much more devastating than on a DOS/windows system. If you either 'umount' the floppy or 'sync' you will see the drive light blink as the data is actually written to the disk. Always remember to umount _before_ removing the disk! Also remember to 'mount' before writing to the disk! Otherwise you are simply copying data to part of your hard disk. What I like to do is create a file named " floppy not mounted" in /floppy so that if I do 'ls /floppy' without the floppy mounted I see that "message". You can also make /floppy non-writable in which case you'll get errors if you try to copy data to it before you have mounted the floppy disk. -D -- If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup.
