I needed to use the floppy disk on my ubuntu 14.04 system (why is a separate story). I found that the default setup had the floppy owned by root. Even when I made myself a member of the group floppy, I did not have write access. It appeared as if the drive was not a member of the group floppy.
On searching for a solution I came across a change to /etc/fstab which solved the problem. My question is, I would like to understand what these changes do and what the entries mean, and make sure that the changes do not have any flaws. Could the dropping of the utf8 option produce a problem? Original entry (as provided by the installation): /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 New entry: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto,exec,gid=floppy,umask=007 0 0 Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
