Re: Floppy Drive

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

ktb wrote:

> Plasmatik6@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > How do I access my floppy drive from command  line?
>
> You can do so with the following command,
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> that is if you have a /floppy directory which I think is created by
> default so you probably do and the file system you are trying to access
> is 'msdos'.  If it is a linux file system use 'ext2'.  /dev/fd0 I assume
> is where your floppy drive is located.  After you use the command above
> you need to 'cd' to the /floppy directory and use ls -alF or whatever to
> look at what is on your floppy.  To get out 'cd' back to the directory
> you started in and use the same line as you mounted with but use the
> 'umount' command.  See 'man mount' for more details and look at 'man
>

I believe the simpler "umount /floppy" will suffice instead of the entire command.


> fstab' for a more convenient way of mounting file systems.

autofs is a package that will automount file systems as they're needed. I've played
with it a little, but not enough to really know how well it works. But it might be
worth looking into if you use floppies/CDs/etc a lot.

>
> hth,
> kent
>
> >
> > Donivan Roby
> >