On Sunday 02 December 2001 07:47 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > Otis Ward wrote: > > I recently altered only the /dev/fd0 line of my /etc/fstab file, instead > > of commenting out the original so it could be restored I edited the only > > existing version of that line. It now reads as follows; > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy floppy defaults, user, auto 0 0; edited version > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy xxxxxx defaults, user, noauto 0 0; original > > > > /dev/fd0 /floppy xxxxxx defaults, user, noauto 0 0; my attempt to > > return to the original setting > > > > Can you tell me the original setting for the third column? > > Mine says "auto", which makes sense, since you might have floppies in > various formats. > > I'm also not sure whether you should have spaces between "user" and > "noauto"; I think the fstab format uses spaces to separate the columns. Try > pasting this next line into your /etc/fstab and see if it works better: > > /dev/floppy /floppy auto defaults,user.noauto 0 0 > > Craig
user and noauto should be comma-separated.

