FC2 User mount floppy

Clifford Snow glass-art at comcast.net
Sat Jun 5 14:17:33 UTC 2004


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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Clifford Snow
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