On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Doug Gough wrote: > Is it just me, or is floppy disk usage under Linux an unadulterated pain in > the ass? I'm really not a newbie, but I can't get it done. I've formatted it > with Gnome Floppy, with a Linux Native (ext2) file system. It formats > successfully, and then I try to mount it as follows: mount /mnt/floppy and I > get this message: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many > mounted file systems.
There are a couple ways to access floppies: 1) Use the native filesystem as you've tried. If the automount is not working, try to explicitly specify the filesystem with: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Remember that you must sync and unmount the floppy before removing it. 2) Use the mtools package to format DOS floppies. This is useful since most people use floppies to copy one or two files. With mtools you can copy files with: mcopy somefile a: get a directory with: mdir a: etc.. Since the first doesn't work, post what steps you're taking to create the floppy. It should be something like this: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mke2fs /dev/fd0 mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > I've run mke2fs on it, to make sure that the disk has the correct file > system. That seems to work. I've checked my fstab file, and the floppy entry > looks like this: > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > I don't know alot about this, but from what I've read, this seems like a > perfectly valid fstab entry for my floppy drive. > The drive works properly under Windows, and in fact, it seems that I have > this problem with numerous different Linux computers. I must be doing > something wrong, and I won't be surprised if it's simple and obvious, but I > can't figure it out. Please help. > > Doug Gough > > > > >
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