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Hello Jasen - 

CA>> I was referring to the necessity to un-mount devices etc.
CA>> rather than the automated way that Windows (and other OS)
CA>> do it. 

JB> linux has automount... it works quite well. 

Yes, automount and supermount both. I will need to get more
familiar with these two. :-) 

JB> Windows doesn't handle writing to floppies well, if your
JB> sharing the disk between two PCs it can happen that they
JB> forget which disk it is and ask for it but can't recognise
JB> it. DOS otoh can corrupt floppies if they are changed at
JB> the wrong time... (my mother was good at corrupting
JB> floppies using wordstar ) 

Windows had some problems with the write-back cache for some
years but I _think_ that was addressed in W98 or W98SE. The
problem now is the ID Windows writes to a floppy even if you
only do a directory read on it. It can trash special purpose
floppies by writing to them at that location. 

WC>>>> I've used xcopy32 with appropriate switches as well. 

CA>>>> That might work for FAT partitions but won't do much
CA>>>> good for the Linux partitions. :-) 

JB> cp -a works well for that sort of stuff. 

I don't know all the 'cp' switch commands but would prefer
image copies of partitions myself (as backups). 

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