Re: mounting floppy

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

Moritz Schulte [tux@gmx.li] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It
> > mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now
> > when I try to mount it I get the following error message: [I cannot
> > determine the file type and none was specified]
> 
> which filesystem has this floppy? which filesystem does /dev/fd0 have
> in /etc/fstab? can you mount the floppy with 'mount -t <fs> /dev/fd0
> /floppy'?
This floppy is formatted ext2 filesystem and when I try to mount it with the above command I receive the following message:

debian:/home/dlm# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0/floppy
Usage: mount [-hV]
       mount -a [-nfFrsvw] [-t vfstypes]
       mount [-nfrsvw] [-o options] special | node
       mount [-nfrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] special node
       A special device can be indicated by  -L label  or  -U uuid .
Here's the line in my fstab file for /dev/fd0:
/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto            0       
0
I am able to mount other floppies, although I'm wondering if maybe I might have trashed the disk by removing it before unmounting it or something??

Well, thanks for your time and assistance
cheers
dale