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From: relling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
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Subject: Re: Sparcstation floppy utilities
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 29 May 90 19:15:14 GMT
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Beware of using "eject -f" (eject forcefully) to unmount and eject a
floppy since it will even eject a busy file system :-(.  This will cause a
crash of the worst sort (fsck by hand :-( I did it once just for grins.)
Since *ANY* user can issue an eject -f at any time, I consider mounted
floppies to be a risk.  I even wrote a floppy unmount program which would
do a better job of explaining the EBUSY error message.  But anybody bright
enough to read the man page and do an eject -f is unstoppable.  I suppose
one could rewrite eject and take out the -f option.

P.S. rumor has it that there is a version of filemgr which allows users to
format/newfs/mount floppies.  Anybody know for sure?  Does it work nicely
with other programs like DOS-Windows?

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