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Thread ID: 24173	2002-09-05 02:00:00	Linux Floppy	gerardkean (1765)	Press F1

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76548	2002-09-05 02:00:00	Wow it's been a long time, now I had tosign up. Using Mandrake 8.1 I was in a hurry and copied some files to /mnt/floppy and found out later when reading my disk that /mnt/floppy was not my floppy. Any suggestions of fixes?	gerardkean (1765)
76549	2002-09-05 04:55:00	This is a bit ambiguous. (1) Did you not have a floppy mounted at the /mnt/floppy mount point, (and wonder where the files went, or did you have a floppy mounted somewhere else? In either of these cases, the files should be healthy and living in the actual /mnt/floppy directory on the hard disk. They will be accessible only if there is no floppy mounted at that point. If you don't have the default "/mnt/floppy" directory, you will have the last file, renamed to "floppy" in the /mnt directory.:-( But that's unlikely ... Mandrake will have generated the mount points. (2) If you had a Linux formatted floppy mounted, and the files went to it, they won't be accessible on a DOS/Win machine. You will need to get them back to the linux box, and write them to a DOS floppy.	Graham L (2)
76550	2002-09-05 05:40:00	Ah I should have been more specific I copied file to /mnt/floppy and went an viewed them in /mnt/floppy and assumed that meant they had been copied. It was a winsoze formatted floppy. From your reply it seems I should copy those files from that directory before getting a floppy mounted or I'll loose them. So my next question it. If /mnt/floppy was not my floppy then why wasn't it? and what do I have to do to get my floppy mounted?	gerardkean (1765)
76551	2002-09-05 06:01:00	Aha . The files won't be lost from where they are, unless you explicitly remove (rm) them . I am sure there is a GUI way to do this, but I know this way . If you are in oldfashioned CLI, or just open a terminal window, then (don't thype comments after "!") :mount ! make sure that there isn't a floppy mounted; if so, do "umount /mnt/floppy" and take it out of the drive . . . ls -l /mnt/floppy ! just see what is there . . . there might be more mkdir /tmp/myfiles ! just for safety, make a place to keep them cp /mnt/floppy/* /tmp/myfiles ! put the files elsewhere mount /mnt/floppy ! mount the floppy with the "auto" type, etc cp /tmp/myfiles/* /mnt/floppy ls -l /mnt/floppy ! check that they went there umount /mnt/floppy ! and remove the floppy rm /mnt/floppy/* ! get rid of the evidence You can scrub the /tmp/myfiles versions when you are sure you've got the files to MS . The mount points "/mnt/floppy", "/mnt/cdrom", etc are actual directories on the hard disk . They can contain files . But if you mount a device on them, the only files accessible by the system are those on the mounted device, as long as it is mounted . You could mount a floppy on the "/usr" directory, and the only files available would be those on the floppy . Of course, don't do that, because the system won't work very well like that, but it is possible . You can mount a floppy on "/" . :D Power off would fix that .	Graham L (2)
76552	2002-09-05 22:44:00	Thanx muchly :) I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I've given myself a project that requires emersion in Linux. Best way to learn.	gerardkean (1765)
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