Re: problems mounting MS-DOS floppy
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:31:51AM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:04:50AM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> > I am trying to mount an MS-DOS floppy disk. I get the following error message:
> >
> > lorenzo@prince:~$ mount /floppy
> > mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
> > lorenzo@prince:~$
> >
> > Here is the relevant info from /etc/fstab:
> >
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
> >
> > But wait... It gets better!
> >
> > Now, if I run
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> >
> > as root and then unmount it and rerun
> >
> > mount /floppy
> >
> > from my normal user account, it seems to solve the problem, at least for a short
> > time.
>
> Strange. I guess because the (vfat,msdos?) module is loaded it will try
> that type as a normal user? I am guessing that msdos is a loadable
> kernel module.
>
> Anyway, I think what you want is to put "vfat" or "msdos" into
> /etc/filesystems, this will cause the mount to try these additional
> types on a mount of an "auto" type. (man mount, search for
> /etc/filesystems). Note vfat is the windows format with long filename
> support.
> [snip]
I'm curious about this advice. I'm running Sarge. I don't find a file /etc/filesystems
on my computer. Is there a package that I failed to install? Which one?
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Paul E Condon
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