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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Floppy drive
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:16:09 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <331BB961.7F86@u.washington.edu> from Jason Wells at "Mar 3, 97 09:55:45 pm"
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> 2-type "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" at the commandline. Type man mount for more
> info. The directory /mnt should exist on your system. If not, you can
> use mkdir to create one. If the disk is in DOS format this will not
> work. You must use a "UNIX" disk.
> 
> 3-Then you should try cd /mnt.
> 
> 4-Then type ls. The contents of this disk should now be displayed.
> 
> 5-Type "umount /mnt" to unmount the floppy.
> 
> Note: if the disk that you want to access is in DOS format try 
>   "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt"

Opps!

4.5-Then type cd /.  Without it, the 5 (umount) will generate an error about
device busy.

> But if you get a warning that says something about the directory not
> being a multiple of blocksize then immediatley type "umount /mnt".
> There is a problem that occurs sometimes when mounting a DOS filesystem.
> I seriously messed up my system by ignoring that warning. I recommend
> avoiding mounting msdos filesystems for reasons based on superstition.

If I know well, it doesn't matter, it's another warning, so many people
reported that after this warning, nothing bad happened.  And the problem is
with something on hard disk partitions, which is big enough to use 16kB
sector-size or something.  As I heard, no problem with floppies.

Gabor