[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[John Bartlett]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 19:06, Andrew Barnes wrote:
> Numerous bad GUI experiences led me to get more comfortable with the command
> line - the nice part to this is that it doesn't matter what
> version/distro/etc this is done on.  
> 
> >From a command shell/terminal window you can run:
> 
> cp [/where/the/file/is] /mnt/floppy
> 

Thanks Andrew,

I did that and it worked. I still can't format a floppy though.

Also, the ls command from the floppy directory reads the file I just
copied to the floppy (export.ged) even though I replaced the floppy with
another and then removed the floppy altogether. In other words, I cannot
read an ls of the floppy.

bash-2.05b$ pwd
/mnt/floppy
bash-2.05b$ whoami
john
bash-2.05b$ ls
export.ged  lost+found

I still get this with NO floppy inserted.

What's with this "lost+found"?

John

using Red Hat 9 in Cobble Hill BC