On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:59:56PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| I have a question about "floppies". First, quaint, aren't they? OK,
| In /etc/fstab:
| /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
That's normal.
| But doesn't that mean that if I insert a "unformatted" or "scrambled"
| floppy, it will fail auto detection as to what file system type it is
| and one will not be able to proceed?
Correct. It is impossible to mount something that isn't a filesystem.
| Wait, I see there's fdformat(8), etc.
If the floppy isn't formatted, you need to format it. I just use
'mkfs'. (eg 'mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0')
| By the way, are most of the floppys out there "vfat" or "msdos" aside
| from "linux rescue disks"?
Or Mac (UFS?). Or minix. Or whatever you decide to make them.
Certainly most floppies are "vfat" because most PCs are "windows".
| Anyways, I have to see Chinese file names, so I used
| /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto,iocharset=cp950 0 0
| But would this have adverse effects if the file system isn't vfat etc.?
Dunno, try it :-). You'll probably get an invalid option message.
On way you could solve that quandry is to have separate mount points
for the disks and separate fstab entries.
HTH,
-D
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