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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl>
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Subject: Re: ro floppy mounted rw crashes system 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 05:55:47 +0200."
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 05:55:47 +0200, "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" wrote:

> If I mount a ro dos-floppy, why doesn't mount_msdos complain
> about it, if I try to mount it rw?

The problem is that teaching mount about non-writable removable media
isn't trivial enough for anyone to have done it any time during the long
period of time for which we've known that this is a problem.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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