Re: Mount behaving oddly under sarge

[Bruno Cesar Ribas <ribas@ufpr.br>]

> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab.
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote:
> Hi, I don't know if this a sarge (or Debian) specific issue. If not
> please accept my apologies for posting it here.
> 
> After a reboot, I can't mount a floppy as a normal user:
> 
> $mount /media/floppy
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
> 
> Even though I have this line in /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> However, I can become root using
> 
> $su
> 
> and do
> 
> #mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> 
> which works fine.
> 
> After that the original command (as a normal user) works fine:
> 
> $mount /media/floppy
> 
> But the next reboot sets it all off again.
> 
> I'd really like to know what's going on here.
> 
> 

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