On 08/28/15 08:20, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > 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
Do you really need to mount the floppy? For occasional use, it's often easier to use mtools. <http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/mtools> galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
