/etc/fstab Lacks Mount Point For Floppy

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:11:43PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I just updated to hal-0.4.0-3 and still can't get the 
> floppy device under the 624 kernel.

Hm, I was just playing with hal-0.4.0-3 and although something
is accessing my floppy drive, twice actually when going from
runlevel 1 to runlevel 3, indeed a new entry for a floppy is not
showing up.  OTOH if I already have in /etc/fstab something like

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user 0 0
or
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner 0 0

then this is left alone.  Or you mean that you want to see /media/floppy?

My CD-RW and a USB floppy (I happen to have such beast on hands :-)
get a different treatment.  This shows up automagically in fstab

/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       iso9660,udf exec,pamconsole,noauto,ro,managed 0 0

for the first one and this

/dev/sdb                /media/floppy           auto exec,pamconsole,noauto,managed 0 0

appears or disappears when that other thingy is plugged/unplugged.
Booting with a USB floppy connected is also good enough.  I would
rather like to know how to replace this "exec" by "noexec,nodev" -
for example - but maybe one day this black magic will be also
revealed. :-)  'man fstab-sync' looks like a good place to start
even if this document has obvious bugs.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136026

Maybe something is just missing from configuration files but
that xml is only so-so readable.

Oh, in case somebody wonders; a behaviour with a floppy drive does
not change with a presence or absence of that USB extra.

> I guess I'll have to define a floppy device each time I reboot -- I 
> don't have the skill to troubleshoot this issue.

As it was mentioned before 'chattr +i /etc/fstab' will make your
/etc/fsatb immutable but you may want to avoid such big hammers
while testing.  OTOH if you are concerned that /mnt/floppy entry
is not automounting anymore (apparently it does not) then getting
'usermount' on your toolbar is not a very complicated operation.
A list in 'usermount' nicely shows only those file systems on which
you have mount/umount rights.

Or you are really seeing something else?

   Michal