Re: how to format a floppy in ext2
Hello Robert,
I think you need to chage the permissions of the /floppy directory...
chmod g+w /floppy .....if that doesn't work try
chmod a+w /floppy
Hope that solves it for you,
Jimmy Richards
On Saturday 31 March 2001 01:45, Robert Voigt wrote:
> I formatted a floppy with mke2fs, but when I try to write something to
> it I get a permission denied. I also added myself to group floppy and
> changed the group of floppy to floppy, but it doesn't help. I don't have
> problems as root nor with msdos floppies.
>
> Here is the line in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/fd0
> /floppy
> auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
>
> You see, there's nothing wrong with it. Or is there a hidden secret?
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