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From: nic@marque.mu.edu (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: mounting floppy volume
Message-ID: <64@marque.mu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 88 06:43:10 GMT
References: <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> <196@anumb.UUCP>
Reply-To: nic@marque.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
Organization: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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In article <196@anumb.UUCP> adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes:
>In article <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) writes:
>>Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy
>>volume?  Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this
>>option.  Can it be done on the unixpc?
>
>
>mount /dev/fp021 /mnt	#	/mnt can be any directory; should be empty.
>umount /dev/fp021	#	will fail if you are in the mount directory.

"dismount" is the preferred method on the 7300/3B1.  You may need to say
"dismount -f" although that should be the default.  I am not totally sure
why this is prefered, but I suspect that dismount does at least one "sync"
and properly sets the disk flags.

It should also be said, that the system is set up so that only the superuser
"root" can mount and dismount devices.

						- Roger
						- Using Nic's Account