OK, Pietro, Martin, I use console mode, but always shut down via 'poweroff'. I likely removed the disc and put it safely in its box before not doing a sync or umount.
I could not have done it more wrong! lesson learnt. Whatever.... that floppy can still not be mounted Regards Ian On 28 Dec 2001, at 13:41, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > HI, dman, Pietro, Jo-el, & Sam, > > > > I definitely did not do a sync. Maybe I did a umount, but probably not. > > > > Why, when one shuts down via, say, poweroff, can unix not do that for you > > in the course of closing things down? It seems on of those things that > > is going to get forgotten in a rush. > > if by "closing things down" you mean shutting down the machine, unix > does that (it happens correctly only if the floppy is still in the > drive). > > if you mean instead logging out, unix doesn't, because it's multiuser, > and somebody else might need the mounted floppy. > > what kind of user interface you use? gnome has a nice panel applet that > allows you to mount/umount floppies with a single click, and makes > things easier. kde must have something like that too. on the console, > you have only mount and umount. > > hope it helps. > > pietro. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ian Balchin ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fables Bookshop, 119 High Street, Grahamstown, 6139, South Africa email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone or Fax +27-(0)46-636-1525 cell: 083-495-7353 sms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder Member Southern African Book Dealers Association http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables Thought for the day: Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human intelligence for long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock.
