chesty wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 04:31:02PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me why Redhat(?) decided to stop you chmod or
> > chown on floppy mounting point?
>
> I think a floppy mounting point is a directory, and a directory is a
> directory. The one redhat put aside for mounting floppies should be no
> different to other directories on your system.
>
> If you have a dos floppy mounted, then chown and chmod won't work
> too well, because userid and permissions are foreign to dos fs.
This is a problem I see so many people have. There is however a
very neat solution.
Make directories as follows (as root):
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mkdir /mnt/dosfloppy
and then add the following two lines to /etc/fstab/
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy vfat user,noauto 0 0
This allows any user to mount the floppy. The command "mount /mnt/floppy"
will mount the floppy drive with a ext2 filesystem while
"mount /mnt/dosfloppy" will mount a vfat filesystem.
Hope this helps,
Erik
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