On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:30:46PM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine "sees" > the floppy. > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > is the entry in fstab. > > I then popped in a blank floppy and did; > > mke2fs /dev/fd0 /floppy > > Then did; > > mount /floppy [ snip ] > So it looks to me like everything is copasetic! What is the problem? > >> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't format mounted >> drives. You can only mount when there *is* a filesytem, and creating Well, uh ... did you read the other email? You can't / shouldn't format a _mounted_ device. You formatted an _unmounted_ device and then mounted it. BTW, I don't see why you did "mke2fs /dev/fd0 /floppy" ... I think "mke2fs /dev/fd0" would suffice. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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