Re: floppy mount and msdos
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 at 20:17 GMT, Debian User penned:
> 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.
If the floppy is fat-formatted, a workaround might be to use the mtools
(mdir and friends) ...
--
monique
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