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Subject: Questions about floppy files in Linux... Author: "Kevin M. Gleason" <kgleason at ma.ultranet.com> at InterNet Date: 10/5/99 5:01 AM 1. Why is it that when I mount a floppy on /mnt/floppy that I list files ls -a and get the last files stored even though that disk is no longer inside the machine? Is Linux caching directories? Is there a way to clear this? 2. what is the specific procedure for mounting an msdos (with long filenames) floppy? (Actually, I copied an RPM file downloaded on another windows9x machine and want to read it.) Thanks in advance for your help! Kevin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This doesn't happen to me. Once I umount the disk, the directory is blank. You aren't just removing the disk without running umount, are you? That would be bad. Peter - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). -------------- next part -------------- Received: from ns.learningco.com ([198.112.0.7]) by mail.learningco.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.12) id 0001E1EA; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:40:43 -0400 Received: by ns.learningco.com; id FAA16519; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:36:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tarnhelm.blu.org(207.31.228.20) by ns.learningco.com via smap (V4.2) id xma016513; Tue, 5 Oct 99 05:35:59 -0400 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA32313 for discuss-outgoing; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:01:42 -0400 Received: from antiochus-fe0.ultra.net (antiochus-fe0.ultra.net [146.115.8.188]) by tarnhelm.blu.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA32310 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:01:37 -0400 Received: from ma.ultranet.com (207-172-216-14.s14.tnt1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.216.14]) by antiochus-fe0.ultra.net (8.8.8/ult/n20340/mtc.v2) with ESMTP id FAA18766 for <discuss at Blu.Org>; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:01:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37F9BE54.1953EF42 at ma.ultranet.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 05:01:09 -0400 From: "Kevin M. Gleason" <kgleason at ma.ultranet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BLU Discussion Group <discuss at Blu.Org> Subject: Questions about floppy files in Linux... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-discuss at blu.org Precedence: bulk
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