Storage on Floppy

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, 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

Depending on what you do to umount (do you issue a umount command ?) the
file system should write out the cache. You wait until the drive light
goes off and then you remove the floppy. Works here. But if you want to be
sure, issue the command sync before umount. As in:

sync; umount /mnt/floppy

You have to wait until the floppy light goes off. You can trash floppy
data on that other OS too, if you pop the floppy before the light goes
off.

Peter
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