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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