Storage on Floppy
William Park
opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 13 14:44:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:11:49AM -0400, John Wildberger wrote:
> The storage of files on floppies in Linux is different than in the "other" OS.
> Say, you have 20 files in a directory, where each file is 400kb long. Now you
> copy the directory to a floppy by " cp * /mnt/floppy" . Then you umount the
> floppy and subsequently mount it again. Next check what you have on the
> floppy with "ls". It will list all the 20 files, but actually only 3 and a
> half files are on the floppy. If the files happen to be picture files with
> the .jpg or .png extension you will be able to display the last incomplete
> file as a partial picture. I hate to see what happens when the last
> incomplete file happens to be an executable file. Chances are that the
> computer will hang or the program will end in the neverland region of memory.
> There is no checking during storage if there is enough space left to store the
> last file in its entirety.
> Also the listing of the complete directory with all the 20 files can be very
> confusing. You might try to execute the sixth file in the list, only to get
> an error message.
Go away, you troll. You would get "out of space" error message.
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