Re: BFFS Icons

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Job Hanssen (23-Apr-01 07:04:01):

> Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>:

>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:11:52AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:

>> > Ignatios Souvatzis skrev:
>> > 
>> > >The reason it can't set the clean flag is that there seems to be
>> > >no way
>> to
>> > >fully unmount a file system in AmigaOS... you "just boot"
>> > >anytime the
>> disk
>> > >isn't active.
>> > 
>> > "C:Assign DISMOUNT Device:" has always worked fine for me. At
>> > least it
>> gets
>> > rid of the icon. =)
>> 
>> yes, but I think the filesystem itself doesn't notice enough to do
>> a dismount. Maybe I'm wrong, I never researched this myself.

> No, you're not. AmigaOS simply doesn't know how to unmount a
> filesystem. The  DISMOUNT flag from C:Assign, only tells AmigaOS to
> 'not care' about the device  any more. This is one of the basic
> flaws in the AmigaOS...

basically, after a DISMOUNT, the dismounted partition doesn't appear
in the C:Info (AmigaOS) stdout any more.

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