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

[kbrannen@gte.net]

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.  

You did do a mke2fs (or some other command which does that for you) on the 
disk before you mounted it the first time right?  If not, that's your problem; 
of course, I would expect the mount to fail if you hadn't, but I just gotta ask.

I agree with the others, never use "auto", always explictly specify your FS 
type in the fstab file.

I did this sort of thing once to see if it would work.  It did, but was such a 
hassle, I gave up and never did it again.  I just use DOS formated floppies 
now, and "mtools".

HTH,
Kevin