Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:55:10 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is that floppy write-protected? Message-ID: <19970828085510.60034@gaffaneys.com>
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Is it possible to determine if a floppy disk is write-protected from a script? If you happen to be staring at the console, it's pretty obvious for a person to determine what is happening, but I can't figure out how to tell from a script. If you mount a write-protected flopp, and remove a file on it, the script can't tell if the file was really removed or not (it sure looks like it was removed from the scripts point of view). I know I could unmount the floppy, remount it, and test if the files are really gone, but then /var/log/messages becomes full of needless write-protected floppy errors. This is what I ended up doing, but it would be nice if there were a better solution. -- Zach Heilig (zach@gaffaneys.com)
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