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Author: Blake Barnett
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Subject: Floppy question
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 00:16, George Toft wrote:
> I trashed every floppy I removed without umounting first.
> I love reliability!!!


Many floppy drives weren't designed to 100% specs and don't flush their
buffers when disks are removed. You can use 'fdflush' on most systems
to force a buffer flush.

Unmounting is still always a good idea. :)

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