Victor Odhner wrote: > > When you have a floppy in your Linux system, > mounted as a filesystem (e.g., /mnt/floppy), > you should not remove it without first doing > a umount. For one thing, the floppy might be > corrupted if you had written to it, assuming > the buffers might not have been flushed out > to the floppy; and the new floppy might also > be corrupted, if Linux thinks it still has > the previous floppy. Some such effects are > also possible under DOS and Windows under > some circumstances. I trashed every floppy I removed without umounting first. I love reliability!!! George