Floppy written in CentOS won't mount in FC3

Mark Sargent powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Fri Jul 15 03:24:29 UTC 2005


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>A floppy is not vfat.
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oh, ok, silly me..cat just kicked me

>try a simple "mount /media/floppy".
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wil do....ok, just hangs, and then gives the following,

[root at localhost ~]# mount /media/floppy
/dev/fd0: Invalid argument
mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock

>  The system should see the proper
>filesystem type and mount it.  Is is after all in fstab with filesystem
>type "auto"
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unfortunately, not for me..cheers.

P.S. On the box that the floppy was created, when booting up today, and 
doing a cd /media/floppy and a ls it displays the content of the floppy, 
and cat "file name" displays the content of the file on the 
floppy..thing is, the floppy wasn't even in the floppy drive at the 
time..why does it keep a copy of something like that.? Is this to do 
with Linux as a filesystem, even for blocks(meaning, because it was 
mounted, and I guess not mounted, it still exits, virtually .?)...

Mark Sargent




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