On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:04:50AM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > I am trying to mount an MS-DOS floppy disk. I get the following error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /floppy > mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > Here is the relevant info from /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > But wait... It gets better! > > Now, if I run > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > > as root and then unmount it and rerun > > mount /floppy > > from my normal user account, it seems to solve the problem, at least for a short > time.
Strange. I guess because the (vfat,msdos?) module is loaded it will try that type as a normal user? I am guessing that msdos is a loadable kernel module. Anyway, I think what you want is to put "vfat" or "msdos" into /etc/filesystems, this will cause the mount to try these additional types on a mount of an "auto" type. (man mount, search for /etc/filesystems). Note vfat is the windows format with long filename support. HTH > > Is this a bug? Is there a work-around for this strange behaviour? I know there > are the mtools commands, but I want to be able to run Unix commands on the files > as if they are on the system rather than copying to the Unix tree, running the > necessary commands and then copying the files back to the floppy, which is what > it seems mtools would make me have to do. I also tried dosemu as an option, and > it let me access the files and run DOS commands on them including a rather nice > edit command, but it was extremely slow. > > Any ideas or fixes are welcome. > > PRINCE > -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux --- The best things in life are free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
