Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
as being over-complicated about the whole thing: I was trying to do: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy when all I should be doing is: mount /floppy the entries in fstab default /floppy to /dev/fd0 (no need to specify), autodetect file system time ( no need for -t vfat) and user lets me (not root) do

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
#x27;s wrong? > > >>particular case, /etc/fstab should include line like >> >>/dev/fd0/floppy autonoauto,user0 0 >> >> > > had the same problem, would be interested to know, but can't re-make my > problem now. &

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Hubert Chan
t; I keep getting: Only root can do that. I also tried to mount to a Tom> directory ~/temp using "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy" and still Tom> nothing Do "mount /floppy" instead. mount will be able to read fstab to figure out what /floppy is supposed to be. U

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Hubert Chan
t; I keep getting: Only root can do that. I also tried to mount to a Tom> directory ~/temp using "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy" and still Tom> nothing Do "mount /floppy" instead. mount will be able to read fstab to figure out what /floppy is supposed to be. U

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Derek Broughton
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: /dev/fd0/floppy autonoauto,user0 0 The "user" flag is important: it tells that an ordinary user can mount the filesystem (I don't know if it is possible to specify that any user in a specific gr

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tobias Ulbricht wrote: >doesn't quite solve Tom's problem. Oops. Tom's line was so terse that I was temporarily blinded by it :-/ >> >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab ... >> >/dev/fd0/floppy autouser

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tobias Ulbricht
doesn't quite solve Tom's problem. see below. On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > > >I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. > > > >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab >

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: >I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. > >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab >brwxrwx---1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 23 21:46 /dev/fd0 >drwxrwxr-x2 root root

mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab brwxrwx---1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 23 21:46 /dev/fd0 drwxrwxr-x2 root root 4096 Nov 30 2000 floppy /dev/fd0/fl

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Derek Broughton
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > > > /dev/fd0/floppy autonoauto,user0 0 > > The "user" flag is important: it tells that an ordinary user can mount > the filesystem (I don't know if it is possible to specify that any > user i

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tobias Ulbricht wrote: >doesn't quite solve Tom's problem. Oops. Tom's line was so terse that I was temporarily blinded by it :-/ >> >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab ... >> >/dev/fd0/floppy autouser

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tobias Ulbricht
doesn't quite solve Tom's problem. see below. On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > > >I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. > > > >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab >

Re: mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tom Allison wrote: >I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. > >bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab >brwxrwx---1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 23 21:46 /dev/fd0 >drwxrwxr-x2 root root

mount floppy

2001-12-18 Thread Tom Allison
I'm running into a rights issue with mounting floppies as a non-root user. bash-2.05a$ ls -l /dev/fd0 && ls -l / | grep floppy && grep fd0 /etc/fstab brwxrwx---1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 23 21:46 /dev/fd0 drwxrwxr-x2 root root 4096 Nov 30 2000 floppy /dev/fd0/fl