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

[Fred James]

Which brings up the questions (at least in my mind):  How was the floppy 
formatted, and what file system was installed on it?  Secondly (assuming 
the answer to part two of my first question is something other than 
ext2), if the file system on the floppy was ext2 would one experience 
the same problem?



Bug Hunter wrote:

>   If you have mtools installed, try putting a floppy in that was formatted
> on a dos machine:
> 
> mcopy filename a:
> remove floppy
> 
> on other machine
> mcopy a:filename .
> 
> 
>   DO NOT MOUNT the floppy
> 
>   otherwise, do this:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> cp filename /mnt/floppy
> sync
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 
> on new machine
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> cp /mnt/floppy/filename .
> umount /mnt/floppy
> 
>   see if this works better.  I've found that "auto" does not always
> automatically work.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Geremy L. Hamlett wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
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