Re: umounting

From: Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 05:40:29 EST

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Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@epfl.ch> said:
> > > So, the solution is - teach your users to unmount disks before leaving,
> > > or mount them in synchronous mode - but I am not sure, whether VFAT
> > > supports that and it is a performance hog too.
> >
> > Better use mtools. No mounting required, which does screw DOSish minds.
>
> I agree, but it probably does work only with floppies.

Nope. It obviosly needs access (R/W) to the device/partition, and the right
configuration. I've used it with floppies and parallel Zip drives, and
sometime even with a loopback-mounted floppy image ;-)

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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