Re: floppy mount and msdos
At Monday, 22 December 2003, Debian User <debian-user@zerocrossings.
com> wrote:
>i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine
>to my non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is
>listed in fstab as:
>
>/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>
>at the shell prompt, mount displays:
>
>/dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw)
>
>looks good, right?
>
>i copied the g-zipped tarball onto the floppy at the windows machine.
>i list the contents at the shell prompt when i put the floppy into
>the linux machine and a whole lot of attempts to access beyond the
>end of the device errors are reported.
>
>is something missing from the kernel to support the windows ftype?
>
hmm ... i deleted the mount entry from /etc/mtab and mounted the
device again. looks like it works this time. umount -f ... would
not unmount the device however.
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