Storage on Floppy

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, John Wildberger wrote:

> What I said applies to a Mandrake 9.1 system. The Floppy is an external
> USB Floppy.  I only posted this as a curiousity item with the thought in
> mind that it might interest someone.  One respondent found it necessary

Ah, the external USB floppy explains it. Maybe it's a bug. Anyway the
'enhanced' umount command I posted just before will fix it. You can rename
or alias umount for shell work so:

alias umount='sync; umount'

this can have strange effects however, consider it an example of how such
problems can be solved (as a stopgap measure). It is documented in the
bash manual page under aliases (and the documentation is confusing).

In a GUI, you can use the refresh command while in the floppy directory.
This is usually F5. The refresh should cause a flush. Again wait for the
drive light to go off before removing the media.

Peter

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