On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:13, Carl Lafferty wrote:
You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry
for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another
fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give
it a different name (and
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote:
it occured to me the other day to try mounting
a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system.
I can mount the floppy with
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2
as root and things work OK but under no circumstances
can I mount it from my
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:23, you wrote:
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
Pardon me for jumping in, I am off work today and thought I might help
At 02:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
Michael D. Viron wrote:
Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you
will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user.
How do you do this?
edit /etc/groups, and add the username after the last : in whatever group
