From: Jan Ciger <jan.ciger@epfl.ch>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: umounting
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:01:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m16TL9R-021CWQC@ligsg2.epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201231040.g0NAeTKR009932@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
In-Reply-To: <200201231040.g0NAeTKR009932@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
> > I agree, but it probably does work only with floppies.
>
> Nope. It obviosly needs access (R/W) to the device/partition, and the right
> configuration. I've used it with floppies and parallel Zip drives, and
> sometime even with a loopback-mounted floppy image ;-)
Yeah, but you have to specify the format, and that is not that easy. It is a
good way, how to screw your disks, when you do not know, what are you doing.
I know, that it works with other things than floppies, but you have to have
the format definition mentioned above.
Jan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-23 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-22 14:07 umounting Samuel Maftoul
2002-01-22 14:52 ` umounting Jan Ciger
2002-01-22 19:01 ` umounting Oliver Neukum
2002-01-22 19:46 ` umounting Jan Ciger
2002-01-23 8:06 ` umounting Samuel Maftoul
2002-01-23 21:42 ` umounting Oliver Neukum
2002-01-23 23:52 ` umounting Samuel Maftoul
2002-01-24 9:22 ` umounting Xavier Bestel
2002-01-22 22:10 ` umounting Horst von Brand
2002-01-23 10:33 ` umounting Jan Ciger
2002-01-23 10:40 ` umounting Horst von Brand
2002-01-23 11:01 ` Jan Ciger [this message]
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