Hello All, I wanted to mount msdos filesystems on floppies as a user because I want to give a friend of mine an account on my computer and enable him to mount and umount file systems on his floppy when it is inserted in my floppy drive.
At the present time I can only mount file systems on a floppy in my drive as root, and want to be able to do it as a user. So I did a man fstab and learned how to look at my fstab file. I did a cd to /etc and then did a cat fstab to find out what was in my /etc/ fstab file. I noticed that the line containing fd0 was as follows: /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat,auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 where the last two 0's were under <dump> and <pass>. I then did a vi fstab and i and got the following warning in red: "w10: Warning: changing a read only file". Not wanting to break something or to cause havoc to my system I did an esc :q! and then sent you this message. Is it safe for me to edit the fstab file, and if so, how should I modify it so that I can mount msdos type files on a floppy inserted into my floppy drive? I want to give a friend of mine an account on my computer and give him the capability to mount and umount msdos file systems on his floppy when he inserts it in my floppy drive. regards, Michael Walters - tier two member _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
