Mounting an Allocated Floppy Device

File systems on floppy disks are not automatically mounted at allocation because the user may wish to create a new file system over an existing file system already on the floppy. Programs such as fdformat(1) or newfs(1M) can create a new file system only if the file system on the floppy device is not mounted. Therefore, before mounting an existing file system on a floppy, the disk_clean script asks the user whether or not to mount the file system.

If a floppy disk is not formatted, the disk_clean script asks the user whether or not to format the floppy.

After the file system on a floppy is mounted as part of device allocation, a File Manager pops up with the current directory set to the mount point.