/etc/fstab Lacks Mount Point For Floppy

[Robert L Cochran]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:

>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:11:43PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
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>>I just updated to hal-0.4.0-3 and still can't get the 
>>floppy device under the 624 kernel.
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>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
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>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user 0 0
>or
>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner 0 0
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>then this is left alone.  Or you mean that you want to see /media/floppy?
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>

I'm having results similar to this also, removing that 'managed' option 
seems to preserve the fstab entry and the /media/floppy mount point at 
boot time. Jeff Spaleta filed a bug on this issue that I added comments to:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135976


>My CD-RW and a USB floppy (I happen to have such beast on hands :-)
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I'll have to try the USB floppy that goes with the laptop my employer 
issued me some day -- that is, take the floppy and plug it into my 
desktop machine and see what happens.

>get a different treatment.  This shows up automagically in fstab
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>/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       iso9660,udf exec,pamconsole,noauto,ro,managed 0 0
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My DVD-RW drive always shows up with those options also.

>for the first one and this
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>/dev/sdb                /media/floppy           auto exec,pamconsole,noauto,managed 0 0
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>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
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>Maybe something is just missing from configuration files but
>that xml is only so-so readable.
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I agree.

Bob