Re: [SuSE Linux] Floppy disk and FSTAB

[Christopher Ballog]

Hello

You should not put your floppy disk in the fstab unless you want to use noauto option; and reason being is that if there is no floppy in the driver the mount will fail.

Take a look at the manual pages "man fstab" and "man mount"for more information.


To mount the floppy from the command prompt use

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Linux format disks) -or-
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy (for Dos format disks)

/floppy is a direct you must create under the root directory.

WARNING:___You must unmount the floppy and remount the floppy to change disks.__


The unmount command is:

umount /dev/fd0

Well I hope I have include all need information
Christopher

At 10:47 PM 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>When I try to do a mount /dev/fd0 it says that "mount: can't find /dev/fd0
>in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab"
>
>However when I tried a cat /dev/fd0 it typed out the data from my floppy
>disk.
>
>My /etc/fstab file reads..........
>
>/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
>
>/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
>/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user
>0 0
>
>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>
>
>
>
>How do I go about adding a line so that the floppy disk is accessible?!
>
>
>Thanks in advance!!
>
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