[NTLUG:Discuss] problem w/ copying to a floppy drive

[Geremy L. Hamlett]

For anyone who wants to help.

This is probably a dumb question, but i cant seem to find an answer.  
when i copy (cp) a file to a floppy disk (1.44 M) and then umount it, and 
then later go back and remount it onto another computer the file that I 
copied is turned into garbage (unreadable junk).  The files I am 
transfering are simple .c files.  

Here is my sequence in doing this.

$:  mount /mnt/floppy/
$:  cp somefile /mnt/floppy/
$:  umount /mnt/floppy

After this i a can view the file in the /mnt/floppy/ directory wiht vi, 
cat, anything and it is ok.  When I umount it and remount it on the same 
computer, or a diffrent one, the file is garbage.


This is what my fstab floppy line looks like.

/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy		auto	noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I am running RedHat 7.2 w/  2.4.9-31 
I only noticed this after I had another computer to transfer files 
between.


Please help.
Thanks,
-- 
Geremy L. Hamlett