Floppy question

[George Toft]

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