relling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling) (05/30/90)
Beware of using "eject -f" (eject forcefully) to unmount and eject a floppy since it will even eject a busy file system :-(. This will cause a crash of the worst sort (fsck by hand :-( I did it once just for grins.) Since *ANY* user can issue an eject -f at any time, I consider mounted floppies to be a risk. I even wrote a floppy unmount program which would do a better job of explaining the EBUSY error message. But anybody bright enough to read the man page and do an eject -f is unstoppable. I suppose one could rewrite eject and take out the -f option. P.S. rumor has it that there is a version of filemgr which allows users to format/newfs/mount floppies. Anybody know for sure? Does it work nicely with other programs like DOS-Windows? Richard Elling | Manager of Network Support Auburn University | Engineering Administration Work: relling@eng.auburn.edu | (205)844-2280 Play: relling@cup.portal.com | AMPR.ORG: 44.100.0.72 (KB4HB-8)