Storage on Floppy

[John Wildberger]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 02:56 pm, Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:

> mount -t vfat -o sync,dirsync /dev/sda /mnt/flash
>
> works for me. In this case you don't need to sync data, it always will be
> synced.
Reading the man mount page tells me that sync only works for ext2,ext3 and 
ufs.
If I mount my floppy, as suggest above, with 
"mount -t vfat -o sync,dirsync /dev/sda /mnt/floppy"
then copying long files will spin my floppy forever. The only way to stop it 
is by taking the floppy disk out of the drive. Inserting it again and using a 
filemanager I can see that only the first two files were recorded. The second 
one only partially.
When I mount the floppy with "mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy"
the recording is more normal. After the fourth file I get error message 
"No space left on the device" 
This message is repeated for all the files left to copy. (6 files).
Checking again with a file manager I see the first three files are being 
recorded with its full content. The forth file is only partially recorded.
(73kb out of 460kb).
All 10 files show their full filename in the filemanager, with the last 6 
files showing 0 content.
The recorded floppy I can take out of the drive and insert it into another 
computer and see that the directory shows all 10 files with their full 
filename, but only the first four files have any content.

Now  those of you who call me a troll again for pointing this out  should go 
ahead and have fun. 
John
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