Alan - I asked several days ago if there is any dangers in using supermount and was
assured that there isn't any danger (at least for a single-user system).
Would you please explain why you say we should mount/umount the "old way"?
I'm using ext2 files.
thanks
Bill
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Phil....don't change the fstab entry. Supermount only works
> for dos formatted floppies. Mount ext2 floppies the old
> fashioned way and don't forget to umount them before removal.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Phil Burton wrote:
> >
> > I cannot mount floppies using supermount. My /etc/fstab
> > reads:
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> > /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda4 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0
> > 0
> > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> >
> > Cdroms mount just fine. I want to be able to mount (both as
> > root and as user) and read/write (as root and as user). I
> > have checked available documentation and nothing works. As
> > for the "fs=auto" I added "ext2" to /etc/filesystems because
> > I have ext2 formatted floppies.
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > --
