On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote: > > Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters > > mean. > > But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments. > > > > MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0 > > YOURS none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2 > > ,--,umask=0,user \___/ \__/ this probably lets it read DOS and > > Linux disks__/ / / this is probably your problem, the user > > flag turns off __/ a lot of other flags (see man mount for details) > > > > > > > > MINE ,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > > YOURS ,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850 0 0 > > \__/ > > / > > I think this causes all writes to occure immediately. > > > > > > Try removing the 'user' flag and see if that works. I would guess that > > the sync flag would be good for floppies since you might remove a floppy > > while there was still some buffered data. > > I made my fstab lines exactly the same as yours and still no joy! This > is getting serious, I can't back up anything! > > Rich
I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't. HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ------------------------------- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ........................................Henry David Thoreau _______________________________ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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