NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/18652

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From: [e-mail] (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Dismounting a Device?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 16:06:12 +0100
Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Bernhard Moellemann) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Boy Wonder) writes:
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Wilhelm Stiefelhagen) writes:

>>>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.

>"Assign Dismount" removes data structures from the system which _might_ be
>still used by the handler/filesystem.

>So use it with care if you know, what you are doing - do not use it otherwise.
>(Or be prepared to crash 8-)

I use some tool to dismount old devices and mount the same devices again
with different parameters for my SCSI Magneto optical disk. By default
I am only allowed to change media of same partion data, if I use
partions with different sizes on this removable media and I change
the disk, I use this special program. In some cases there are structures
left (for example if you still have a shell (or more dangerous a file) open
on this device). So there will be a lot of icons for busy devices on the
screen. But I did not have problems with that. The worst case was:
I had to reboot to access the device again.
No really harm did happen to me.
(But nobody will promise :-))

Willi
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Wilhelm Stiefelhagen               [e-mail]