On Wednesday 11 April 2007 20:56, Philip Webb wrote: > Ordinarily, I use Mtools to manage diskettes (floppies): > it's very fast & efficient to copy & delete files from the CLI. > > I've long had Krusader installed & have recently tested Thunar & Dolphin > & find that while they claim to handle diskettes, it's not reliable: > sometimes they do copy or delete files successfully; > sometimes they say they have, but nothing happens in the drive; > sometimes they say they can't access the drive at all. > I've added a line to /etc/fstab : > '/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user 0 0'
This won't work well with dbus and hald running at default runlevel. To automount a device like /dev/fd0 you will need to take it out of fstab and leave the job to dbus & hald. If you want to mount it manually from the CLI use pmount/pumount instead of mount. Alternatively, if you want a totally manual approach forget hald and make an entry in fstab as above; vfat is best for writing long filenames, auto will also work as suggested. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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