On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > > > I have a stack of floppies that i'm sorting through, and i need to know > > what's > > on them. Some of them, however, aren't formatted. I have know way to know > > which ones aren't until i mount them. Every time i try to mount an > > unformatted > > floppy, mount segfaults. Afterwards, if i try to mount another floppy it > > says "mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /floppy busy". I can mount a > > floppy to other directories, so it must be /floppy that's busy, even > > though /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts both show it as not mounted. Further, > > i can't remove the floppy module from the kernel. > > > > Eventually i run out of directories to mount to and have to reboot. > > This is unacceptable. Any ideas? > > Did you try umounting /floppy? I had a similar proble. But with a corrupted floppies. Trying to access a file that happens to be too long produces and error (something like: VFS: trying to access outside the filesystem), and after that there is no way to unmount the floppy. Had to reboot. Does anyone know a way to force unmounting in such a case ? Sergey.
