Sparcstation floppy utilities
Richard Elling
relling at eng.auburn.edu
Wed May 30 05:15:14 AEST 1990
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?
Richard Elling | Manager of Network Support
Auburn University | Engineering Administration
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