Gary wrote: > Okay, now I'm having a bit of annoyance with disk volumes. > > After doing my initial install, I unearthed a SCSI (real SCSI, not > parallel-port quasi-SCSI) ZIP-100 drive and SCSI controller. I know > zipdisks are way obsoleted by even CDR's (never MIND DVD-R's), but > bear with me. I have some stuff on them, in MSDOS format, that I'd > like to transfer to HD, convert zip100's to ext3, then copy data back. > > BIOS finds the controller just fine. > > How do I get Linux to recognize and mount it on startup now? I'm > having trouble even getting it to work even on a session-by-session > basis. After puzzling through man and info screens, I arrived at the > notion that I should do: > > #mkdir /mnt/zip100 > #mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip100 > > This got me a readable disk; the problem was, it was owned by root, > therefore read-only by non-root, and I couldn't figure out exactly > what file or directory I was supposed to CHMOD to get it otherwise. >
First, auto-mounting removable disks is a bad idea, because there will be nothing to mount, when the drive is empty. Second, you can save a lot of time by (working as root) you modify the /etc/fstab file. Check the man page for fstab. The 'user' option will permit non-root entities to mount the drive. Here is an example from my 'fstab', mounting a FAT32 partition for non-root users, with no auto-mount: --------------------------- /dev/hde5 /home/wittig/data2 vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0 --------------------------- I create a line to mount the FAT32 partition (vfat) on '/dev/hde5' on a local mount point (as opposed to in /mnt directory) in my own '/home' directory, I don't auto-mount (noauto), 'user' is permitted to mount, read/write. Once you have a line in 'fstab' for mounting the device, you can then use a simpler command to mount. For my example: /home/wittig$ mount data2 > Also, as mounted above, the OS regards the zip100 as a NONREMOVABLE HD > and disables the eject capability altogether. How do I correct that? > You have to unmount the drive, before you can eject the media. The command is 'umount' (without the 'n') ...check the man page. > When I installed EasyLinux previously, I had a secondary (untouched by > Linux) HD, MSDOS format; the installation set itself up to automount > MSDOS volumes. Now, with the Fedora install, there was no such > secondary MSDOS HD, so it didn't set that up, how do I add that > ability now? > I do not use either EasyLinux or Fedora, so I am not sure of the particulars, but you might find the information you seek on unmounted partitions in '/proc/partitions', which can be read with the command: $ cat /proc/partitions > I know these are really basic questions, but well, isn't that the > purpose of this forum? > Yep. The fact that you asked specific, well-described questions, in an understandable format, was a plus, as was the fact that you had done some preparatory homework, checking the man pages (Google is pretty useful, too). You might want to consider putting a more specific entry in the 'Subject' line, in the future. When busy, some readers will just gloss over posts with what appear to be 'conversational' (as opposed to technical) 'Subject' lines. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
