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- From: ry41@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Moellemann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Dismounting a Device?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 12:07:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- References: <1gagj8INN73u@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> <1gj811INNg16@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- In article <1gj811INNg16@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder) writes:
- >In article <1gicdnINNijs@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> ad010@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen) writes:
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- >>So I used it only a few times (but without problems) when testing
- >>a new edited mountlist without willing to reboot after every correction.
-
- >I can't see any reason to not use it. You'd have to be REAL stupid to mess
- >anything up by re-assigning a device. Maybe something like:
- >assign SYS: NULL: :-)
-
- You are not a programmer 8-) Things like that are not really dangerous.
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- "Assign Dismount" removes data structures from the system which _might_ be
- still used by the handler/filesystem.
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- So use it with care if you know, what you are doing - do not use it otherwise.
- (Or be prepared to crash 8-)
-
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