I do stand corrected, to a point, on the "mount /mnt/floppy" thing from earlier...with the fstab entry, if the floppy was ext2 formatted, it should have worked.
However, as I pointed out below, if the floppy is DOS formatted, you need to specify the full command, with file system type. On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't > mounted. > > "mount /mnt/floppy" won't do any good, because /mnt/floppy is not a > device. "mount /dev/fd0" on its own won't do any good, because you aren't > specifying a filesystem type or a mount point. > > If the floppy is an ext2 formatted floppy, then "mount /dev/fd0 > /mnt/floppy" should work just fine (assuming that the directory > /mnt/floppy exists. > > As to the file types, this comes directly from "man mount": > > -t vfstype > The argument following the -t is used to indicate > the file system type. The file system types which > are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs, > coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, > hfs, hpfs, iso9660, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs, > proc, qnx4, romfs, smbfs, sysv, udf, ufs, umsdos, > vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv > and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coher > ent will be removed at some point in the future -- > use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the > types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore. > > So, if the floppy is a dos formatted floppy, you should use either: > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > or > > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Linux wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I was introduced to Linux at RH7.0 level and are struggling to understand > > why I cannot mount a floppy on a RH6.1 system I came across yesterday. > > > > I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew > > out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is > > not recognised > > > > The /etc/fstab describes the floppy as ext2 > > > > Do I need to change /etc/fstab? > > Are there any extra extensions I need to add to the mount command? > > > > Many Thanks > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
