Re: 2.6.0, cdrom still showing directories after being erased

From: Måns Rullgård
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 11:18:46 EST


John Bradford <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> That's not what he said and, I assure you that if he unmounted
>> it there would not be any buffers to flush. Execute `man umount`.
>
> I think the original poster was referring to the cache on the device.
>
> I.E.
>
> mount disc
> view contents
> unmount disc
> erase disc - but don't erase the CD-R drive's cache of the media
> mount disc
> view old contents of the media from the CD-R drive's cache

If that's the case, the drive is broken. We can't help that.

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxx

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