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> Hello,
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> I have the following line in /etc/auto.misc file:
> floppy -fstype=auto,rw,user :/dev/fd0
> If I try to mount a floppy which is DOS formatted, it doesn't work sometimes.
> All I have to do is to replace the word "auto" with "msdos" or "vfat". Are there
> some bugs or is anything wrong?
> I have RedHat5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel.
Firstly i dont have redhat 5.2 so i hav'nt got a clue what "/etc/auto.misc"
does or is supposed to do.
However the linux way to mount a floppy drive is with the "mount" command,
and have an entry in /etc/fstab (as shown underneath) to mount the floopy
with the command 'mount /dev/fd0' or 'mount /floppy'
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0
You can mount /dev/fd0 with almost any filesystem, as long as you have
kernel support fot that particular filesystem type.
You can also have multi /dev/fd0 entrys in /etc/fstab but you must define a
seperate mount directory, this method is not recomended.
/dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0
'user' allows user accounts to mount /dev/fd0
'noauto' do not mount /dev/fd0 at boot time
The first 0 is for fs_freq (dump) default is 0
The second 0 is for fsck a value of 0 (default) will tell fsck not to do a
system check.
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> Thanks.
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