hi rick
if you want your box to automatically mount your floppy
than you can do so... you might need to tweek the options and
stuff....
- stick the floppy in...
- ls -l /mnt/floppy and you see the stuff on the floppy
however, popping out a mounted floppy is bad idea...
you should unmount it manually and possibly re-sync it before
unmounint it than pop it out
see the autofs howto...
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
have fun
alvin
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,
> Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was rumoured to have said about
> `` OT: Floppy disk change detection - auto mounts? '':
>
> >
> > One thing that has always surprised me on Linux is that there doesn't seem
> > to be any automatic mount/umount handling of floppy drives (DOS format).
> >
> > I guess I'm thinking of something similar to the pcmcia card manager that
> > detects insert/remove events and automatically loads and unloads drivers.
> >
> > Perhaps there is and I missed it?
> >
> > /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/fd0 /dosa msdos user,noauto
> >
> > I mount with: mount /dosa
> >
> > If I pop out the floppy and put in another, "ls" still shows the contents
> > of the first floppy.
> >
> > Having to umount/mount for every floppy gets tedious! Is there some
> > feature that I don't know about to help with this?
> >
> > I just switched from WABI to Wine for running Quicken. WABI accessed the
> > floppy device directly and didn't need any external help. With
> > Wine/Quicken, I have to do the mount/umount each time. Quicken2000 backup
> > files don't fit on one floppy. I'm new to wine and not very trusting
> > yet so I backup my work every 10 or 20 minutes.
> >
> > ...RickM...
> >
>
> Hello Rick,
>
> Have you tried the automounter? You can set a timeout after which a
> device (in this case the floppy drive) will be auto-unmounted, if not
> busy. With a small enough timeout you could emulate the windows
> behavior.
>
> automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5), autofs(8) etc. have all the
> necessary information to set it up, but note that you also need autofs
> support in the kernel. The debian package name is autofs.
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> sb.
>
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