Re: [rox-devel] Mounting and writing to a MS Dos Floppy

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:34:30PM +1000, Colin McDermott wrote:
> Hey Rox guys.
> 
> I love rox-filer. It is a great piece of low end software. I do have one 
> issue with it though.
> I need it to mount and unmount a MS Dos based floppy disk as well as 
> write to it correctly. I am using Ubuntu hoary 5.04 (customized install, 
> icewm as the window manager).
> 
> I have modified my fstab to mount floppy disks as MS dos first and then 
> VFat (type auto did not mount MS dos disks).
> 
> So rox can mount the disk but it comes into trouble when copying to and 
> from the disks. Often it says it has copied a file. Ill unmount it and 
> then discover on a windoze machine that the file is not there.

What about if you mount it from the command line, do the copy, and
unmount? If you get the same problem, it's not a ROX-Filer bug and you
should report it to the kernel people.


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