Re: dos floppies

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Damion Yates wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Al Hudson wrote:
>  
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> > 
> > > You might also want to mount dos floppies (why you might want to
> > > do this having mtools scapes me, though), messing about with /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > (Nit-picking) Mounting a DOS floppy would give you the benefit of
> > caching, whereas mtools is write-through. I believe?
> 
> I'd see that as a disadvantage normally, sure it can be nice, but in this
> day and age floppies are for quick and dirty use.

Oops forgot to add I'd use sync on the -o mount options or in fstab, which
causes data to get written synchronously, incase you forget to umount before
taking the floppy out!

Damion

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