"Doug Gough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the Gnome floppy formatter to format the disk. I also went to another > machine running mdk8.1 with KDE, and used the KDE formatter to create a ext2 > floppy. Neither will mount by typing mount /mnt/floppy. However, if I use > explicit commands: > > mount -t ext2 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy > > it mounts and works fine. That sucks...... and it's great because it works. > What will my Junior Highschool students do though? Well, they will probably > use dos formatted floppies, so it's no big deal.
Seems like you've already noticed this, but i think the fstab entry somehow defines the floppy to have a fat filesystem - which is why you get a `wrong filesystem' error when you try mount /mnt/floppy. Also explains why it works with a dos / fat disk. I've heard that the fat filesystem is actually better than ext2 for floppies (don't know why, its just something i've heard). Is there a pressing need to use ext2? If not, why not just use fat floppies? But if you need ext2, hopefully someone can explain the changes you need to make to your fstab for ext2 to be the default. If i had to guess, i would suggest trying this in your fstab: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,sync,exec,noauto 0 0 BUT this is just a guess. hopefully someone can confirm this one way or the other. Maybe, if you want to use both fat and ext2, a filesystem type of `auto' instead of `ext2' would work? the mount man page has some info on that. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9
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