I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine "sees" the floppy.
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 is the entry in fstab. I then popped in a blank floppy and did; mke2fs /dev/fd0 /floppy Then did; mount /floppy Then; cd /floppy Then; ls -lai And there is the formatted blank floppy with only the "." and ".." entries Just for the heck of it I did; cp /etc/fstab . And then another ls -lai And there is a copy of /etc/fstab on the floppy now So it looks to me like everything is copasetic! What is the problem? John -----Original Message----- From: Carel Fellinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: how to format a floppy in ext2 On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Darryl N . Grant wrote: > Whenever I format a floppy, I use mke2fs and then tell the mount point. > > Example: mke2fs /mnt Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't format mounted drives. You can only mount when there *is* a filesytem, and creating a filesystem after the mount might severely derange kernel buffers. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
