Questions about floppy files in Linux...

[cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)]

Just out of curiousity, I thought vfat32 was for hard drives using LBA so
you could get 4096 bytes in a cluster.  Floppies are still FAT, right?

I know this is a linux list, but.....

Chuck Young
GTE Internetworking

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Chuck Noyes wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:02:33 -0400
> From: Chuck Noyes <chuck at 110.net>
> To: "Kevin M. Gleason" <kgleason at ma.ultranet.com>
> Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: Re: Questions about floppy files in Linux...
> 
> On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Use mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 <target-mountpoint>   assuming you've enabled vfat
> in your kernel.
> 
>  > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
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