Re: mounting/unmounting devices for newbies

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 08:00:46PM +0200, Ronald de Man was heard to say:
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to disable caching for floppy drives?
> There is hardly any need for it anyway.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 

  -osync, I believe.

  IMO, mounting shouldn't actually be the preferred way of getting at stuff on
a floppy, the semantics don't make sends for it..but it's what we've got I
guess:-/

  Daniel


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