Seems like you are defeating the purpose of a package that has the security benefits of running out of RAM if you put in a job to exercise the floppy.
Maybe I'm missing something, but just pull the thing out and put it in storage. Keep a backup configured image on CD or a hard drive somewhere. regards Kelly -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Julian Church Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 4:59 AM To: Victor McAllister; LEAF list (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Floppys At 10:48 28/09/01 -0700, Victor McAllister wrote: >Reboots can fail when the diskette surface >is coated with dust settling in over several months through the open diskette >window. I have found dust to be the biggest enemy of my LEAF images. Sorry to come back to this thread almost a week after it naturally ended, but how about giving the floppy a spin every day (or every few days) by putting something in crontab? Wouldn't that give it a bit of a dust off and so prolong the life of the disk, or at least expose a different bit of disc and spread the dust around more evenly so preventing damage? To achieve this I've added a line to my crontab file: 00 6 * * * root /bin/mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt; /bin/umount /mnt I'm not all that experienced at all this, so could someone with a bit more expertise let me know what they think of this? If moving the disk is probably going to help, is mounting and umounting a good way to do it? cheers Julian Church -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ljchurch.co.uk _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
