Bill....no dangers that I'm aware of. Through
experimentation, since documentation is all but non-existant,
I found that supermount works fine on dos formatted floppies.
But if you want to read/write an ext2 floppy then you need to
do it the traditional Linux way which includes umounting the
floppy when done. If you don't umount then supermount won't
work on the next dos floppy you put in the drive.
Alan
Bill Fisher wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> > > --
