Can't write to floppy disk

[serkanb]

Here is my problem:

I mounted floppy...
'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and coppied a file to floppy
'cp anyfile /mnt/floppy'

when I use ls comman I could see the file
'ls /mnt/floppy'

but when I tried to see the file from Windows I could't see it.

What's wrong here? Could you please help me?

 

[pansophic]

Did you umount the floppy and then mount it again to determine if the file was actually written to the floppy? Or do a sync before ejecting the floppy?

Linux usually doesn't write to the floppy immediately, it takes a few seconds or more before it even begins to write. If you issue a sync command or a umount command, it will flush all of the dirty buffers and commit the data to disk.
pansophic