Unmount and then re-mount it before the ls command.
$umount /mnt/floppy
$mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
$ls /mnt/floppy
Maybe there is an option on the mount command to do the unmount and then re-mount in one command. But, if there is, I don't know it.
Alan
plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net wrote:
> How do I get my system to reread the contents of the floppy? When I do an ls
- -la I see the stuff that I created on a floppy a while back. I now have a
different floppy in it, but it still lists the old data files.
TIA
- --
Jim
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