FC2 User mount floppy

Norman Nunn npnunn at swbell.net
Sat Jun 5 15:06:27 UTC 2004


Just had a similar issue, and used touch to add a floppy file to /dev
and then linked fd0 to it.

Norm

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:17, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 05:11, melgil88 wrote:
> > Ok I feel like an idiot, I must be just not getting something here or
> > overlooking something real obvious.
> > 
> > I've googled for how to have a user mount a floppy.  I found about 5
> > pages that told me the same thing...enable permissions on /mnt/floppy
> > and edit /etc/fstab, so that's what I did...
> > 
> > Here's the perms:
> > drwxr-xr-x    6 me users   4096 Jun  3 13:47 mnt
> > drwxrwxrwx    2 me users   4096 May 31 20:41 floppy
> > 
> > Here's the line in /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user,rw 0
> > 0
> > 
> > I'm still getting:
> > [me@ me]$ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > mount: only root can do that
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> You did everything correctly except the mount command.  Try:
> mount /mnt/floppy





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