Re: how to format a floppy in ext2

[Ramin Motakef <ramin@motakef.de>]

Jimmy Richards <linuxrh@home.com> writes:

> 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
> 

The floppy has to be mounted at that point.

You have basicly two options:

Format the floppy as user, the floppy then belongs to you and you can
mount and write it. (You need to have write access to /dev/fd0) 

Format the floppy as root, then mount as root, chown or chmod the
mountmoint as needed, umount and mount as user.

HTH
        Ramin