[Courses] mounting floppy

[Mag Mu]

Oh!!  and I thought it was the test file.  Thanks,
that worked :)


--- Maria McKinley <parody at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> It looks like you are in the directory you are
> trying to umount.  Try 
> "cd /" and then try umounting again.
> 
> maria
> 
> Mag Mu wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > After mounting my floppy, I wrote a test file. 
> Now I
> > cannot umount /mymount/ even after removing the
> file. 
> > Also, nothing was actually written to the physical
> > disk.  
> > 
> > So, 2 questions:
> > 1.  When is data actually written to the physical
> > disk?
> > 
> > 2.  How do I unmount the floppy?
> > 
> > Thanks!!
> > 
> > Here is a transcript of what I did:
> > [root at localhost mymount]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
> > /mymount/
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# vi test
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# ls
> > test
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# umount /mymount/
> > umount: /mymount: device is busy
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# rm test
> > rm: remove regular file `test'? y
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# ls -l
> > total 0
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# umount /mymount
> > umount: /mymount: device is busy
> > 
> > [root at localhost mymount]# ls -l
> > total 0
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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