Re: chown for the floppy group
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> You can also add a line to /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with options to
> set to user access without mounting the disk. That way anyone may
> mount a floppy.
> -----------------------------------------------------
Well, I suppose I better RTFM some more. However, I did a chgrp floppy
/floppy, all is fine and dandy without any floppy mounted. However,
when I mount a floppy as root the root group once again owns the /floppy
directory which means I cannot write to it when I'm logged in as a
standard user. I also have this problem when I try to mount my vfat
win95 partiton. Another question when I try to mount a vfat partition I
get the errors:
Unable to load NLS charset cp437(nls_437)
Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1)
but I can still read and write to the disk (as root), I'm guessing I did
something wrong when I recently compiled the kernel with kpkg.
> >
> > I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot
> write
> > to the floppy drive. I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
> > group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root. While I
> was
> > root user I tried to
> >
> > chown .floppy /floppy
> >
> > but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.
>
> Which is probably true. :)
> What about this:
>
> # chgrp floppy /floppy
>
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