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  1. #16
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    Originally posted by Bold Jim

    As I understand it I have a floppy drive, so why can't I mount it,fedup and confused
    Because you are not using the correct mountpoint?

    For a dos/win formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive

    mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

    For a ext2 (Linux) formatted diskette that is inserted in the drive.

    mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

    umount /media/floppy (before removing the diskette)
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    Tis me again
    I have been to bed for a hour, when I got up,
    I tried,mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /media/floppy, as root,
    this worked fine,now all I have to do get it to work in user.

    Never mind, I am off to Linux classes for the hard of thinking, next month,
    so hopefully I whon't bother you guys so much.

    Thanks for your help
    Boldjim

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    Have a look through the mount manpage (man mount) for the user/users option you add to the floppy mountpoint in /etc/fstab.

    Searching the JL forums for 'floppy mount permission' or 'floppy mount user' should find other threads on the same topic.
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    A sample /etc/fstab entry which will allow non-root users to access the floppy:

    /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0


    The user option is what allows a non-root user to mount/unmount removable media such as floppies, CD-ROMs, Zip disks, etc. The "users" option is another slight variation; read the mount man page for a description of the difference betwen the two.

    A further breakdown on the options:

    auto - automatically detect the format of the floppy (msdos, ext2, etc.)

    noauto - do not automatically probe for and attempt to mount removable media at bootup. Since you probably won't usually have a floppy, CD-ROM, etc. inserted when you boot, this option speeds up the boot process a bit by bypassing the check for those disks.

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    mount

    Even if bold jim entered the correct line in the /etc/fstab he still will not be able to mount the floppy by specifing a filesystem type. At least it doesn't work on my PC's.

    The user just uses the mount /media/floppy or mount /dev/fd0 ( in this case) command.

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    Re: mount

    Originally posted by michaelk
    Even if bold jim entered the correct line in the /etc/fstab he still will not be able to mount the floppy by specifing a filesystem type. At least it doesn't work on my PC's.
    ?? It's always worked on my machines... as long as I use the correct syntax

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    Yes Yes O Yes
    Success at last, I cam mount an icon on the desktop as user and read, & write to floppy.
    Sorry to be over the top but it has taken me three months(on and of)trying.

    Thank you all for all your help I have included my fstab so anyone, who does a shearch in the futcher can read it
    /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
    /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0
    /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
    /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
    /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rwx,noauto,user,exec 0 0
    /dev/sr0 /media/sr0 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG B3Fu.Ps_7t2s11wC:D :D
    Boldjim

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    I am glad you were able to mount your floppy drive

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