On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:35:24AM -0800, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> Upon further research (reading man pages), it appears that reading
> long filenames on a DOS floppy wouldn't even be an issue if "vfat"
> appeared before "msdos" in /proc/filesystems
>
> I'm curious: rather than tweak /etc/fstab, wh
Karsten M. Self wrote:
>You can also mount a DOS formatted floppy as vfat if all you're
>interested in is long filenames.
Have been able to do that by changing "auto" to "vfat" in /etc/fstab
Upon further research (reading man pages), it appears that reading
long filenames on a DOS floppy wouldn'
on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:58:41PM +0100, David Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Quoting Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really
> > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat
> > is obsolete, and sup
Quoting Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really
> annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat
> is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there
> something that can do it?
While th
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> > > I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
> > >
> > >
> > > chmod g+w /floppy.if that doesn't work try
> > > chmod a+w /floppy
>
> The chmod did the trick. How could I forget the permission
> > I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
> >
> >
> > chmod g+w /floppy.if that doesn't work try
> > chmod a+w /floppy
The chmod did the trick. How could I forget the permissions? I was
confused because I could write to msdos floppies without having write
Jimmy Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
>
>
> chmod g+w /floppy.if that doesn't work try
> chmod a+w /floppy
>
>
> Hope that solves it for you,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
The floppy has to be mou
Hello Robert,
I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
chmod g+w /floppy.if that doesn't work try
chmod a+w /floppy
Hope that solves it for you,
Jimmy Richards
On Saturday 31 March 2001 01:45, Robert Voigt wrote:
> I formatted a floppy with mke2fs, but
I forgot to mention that I mounted the floppy as user, not root.
I formatted a floppy with mke2fs, but when I try to write something to
it I get a permission denied. I also added myself to group floppy and
changed the group of floppy to floppy, but it doesn't help. I don't have
problems as root nor with msdos floppies.
Here is the line in /etc/fstab:
/dev/
on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Martin Würtele ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really
> > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat
>
You are right. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
mke2fs /dev/fd0 is the best way.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:07:39PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Darryl N . Grant wrote:
> > Whenever I format a floppy, I use m
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:30:46PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote:
> I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine "sees"
> the floppy.
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0
>
> is the entry in fstab.
So? As long as it isn't mounted you can format
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:30:46PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote:
> I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine "sees"
> the floppy.
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy autodefaults,user,noauto0 0
>
> is the entry in fstab.
>
> I then popped in a blank floppy and did;
>
c! What is the problem?
John
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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 forma
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, a
Whenever I format a floppy, I use mke2fs and then tell the mount point.
Example: mke2fs /mnt
I hope this helps.
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really
> annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat
> is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there
> something that
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