Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[bob kehs ksd org]

I think you  can disable cashing with the "-o sync" option.
Dont quote me on that thow...

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Ronald de Man wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:26:55AM -0500, Ryan Warner wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > the disk again, linux gets all p'd off. Then I can't unmount
> > > the disk withought putting the first disk in... seems like it'd
> > > be good if you could just say "no, I don't care that you don't see it,
> > > unmount it, damn it!" This way a request to the floppy drive would be
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > Is there any reason why if all the criteria for unmounting are met, no one's
> > using the fs and all cached data has been written (am I missing any?) that you
> > couldn't unmount the disk without having the disk in the drive.  Maybe I've
> 
> There is no reason. Therefore, you can unmount the disk without having the
> disk in the drive (at least I can).
> 
> > missed a correctly dismounted flag on the disk?  What about adding this
> > capability just to VFAT and FAT16 disks, leaving ext2 alone?
> 
> I'm not aware of any special flags here. I use vfat as filesystem for
> the floppy drive.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to disable caching for floppy drives?
> There is hardly any need for it anyway.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
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