On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > Hi all......... > > > Is there any way of determining which kind of filesystem a floppy has been > formatted with? The > reason I'm asking is because my boot floppy and install disks don't seem to > respond to either > ext2 or dos when I try to mount them. > > Or maybe because I'm a newbie at linux I am issuing the wrong command??? :-)
The responses to this seem to be doing a lot of guessing. My fstab contains the following line: /dev/fd0 /mnt auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 After "mount /mnt", I do a cat /proc/mounts and get: /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /var ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var/spool/news ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /var/account ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda3 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hdc /cd/0 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hdd /cd/1 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda1 /dos vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt vfat ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Looks like vfat to me! :---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----------------: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : :-------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ -------------: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .