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Re: mount floppy



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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> writes:

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

Tom> I am a member of group floppy.

Tom> 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.  Unless you are root, the only
syntaxes for mount that you are allowed to use are "mount <directory>"
and "mount <device>".

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