Bug#151185: boot-floppies: file /etc/fstab is not correct for the line /floppy
If I configure my /etc/fstab with the next line, it works:
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
You mean if you specify "vfat" all files are written to the floppy after you
unmount it, whereas with "auto", they are not written after unmounting the
floppy? Did you wait until the floppy "light" goes out? I can not reproduce
your problem. Also I don't see the difference, a vfat floppy is mounted with
-tvfat, just as it would be if you specified vfat in fstab.
A few days ago, I saw that with "cp" it did not wrote all the files,
even after unmounting and waiting a lot. It was with the file system
"auto" in fstab.
But now, I cannot reproduce it, because the problem is different,
perhaps something has changed in my configuration: now it cannot mount
the file system with auto, and the error message when mounting is
"mount: you must specify the file system type", so auto is
not enough: the mounter cannot detect the type of the file system
of a dos floppy.
But I don't know if it is the solution. Perhaps we can add the sync
option ? so the line in fstab could be:
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat sync,defaults,user,noauto 0 0
AFAIK unmounting forces a sync, but you have to wait until the access to the
floppy stops, ie the floppy "light" goes out. Did you think about using
the mtools?
Christian
I thought about using mtools, but for me it works fine with vfat and
sync. But the problem is not for me, it is for all the billions :-) of
newbies who will install Debian: no body will get their floppy
working because they know nothing about mtools
But perhaps my solution is not the best, because if I insert
a floppy with a unix filesystem, it will not work !
bye
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Manuel Segura
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