George Langford wrote: > I originally groaned: > > >>I use the following line in my fstab file: >> >>>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0 >> >>Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: >> >>>sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 >> >>But when I attempt to write to the floppy, it turns out to be write- >>protected. ... snippage ... > > >>Is this what I should be doing to mount the floppy ? >> >>>sudo mount -t msdos -o george /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 > > > To which Florian helpfully noted: > > >>You probably forgot to add your user to the "floppy" group. Users in >>that group should have read/write access to the device; the "user" >>option in your fstab should make it possible to mount without using >>sudo. If that does not work you should check the permissions of the >>device: >>$ ls -l /dev/fd0 >>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2006-05-18 17:18 /dev/fd0 >> > > That's exactly what I get: > >>ls -l /dev/fd0 >>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2006-06-02 12:01 /dev/fd0 <snip> > George Langford
Hi All, I am having similar problems. Not only can I not write to the floppy as a user (I am a member of the floppy group), but it will not automount - I have to manually mount it using the su command (sudo does not work for me). This also affects my USB pen drive - which will also not automount. My floppy and usbdrive lines in fstab are: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,user,noexec,user 0 2 /dev/sda1 /usbdrive vfat rw,user,exec,user 0 2 I played around with the last column to try to get them to mount - no joy... Now I just get errors on boot. I know that sda1 is the right device for the USB drive, because when I mount it in su mode, I can read and write to it. Could the problem be the type of directory that I am linking these devices to and *their* permissions? The entries in my auto.misc file look like this: floppy -fstype=auto,rw,user,suid :/dev/fd0 usbdrive -fstype=auto,rw,user,suid :/dev/sda1 I checked the permissions of both files and they are almost exactly as above (except for the date/time). I know that it is possible to get both to automount, because I did it on another Debian system I set up ages ago under "Woody". Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
