Re: Changing floppy0 ownership
George Langford wrote:
> I originally groaned:
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>>I use the following line in my fstab file:
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>>>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 msdos rw,user,noauto 0 0
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>>Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly:
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>>>sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
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>>But when I attempt to write to the floppy, it turns out to be write-
>>protected. ... snippage ...
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>
>>Is this what I should be doing to mount the floppy ?
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>>>sudo mount -t msdos -o george /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
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> To which Florian helpfully noted:
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>>You probably forgot to add your user to the "floppy" group. Users in
>>that group should have read/write access to the device; the "user"
>>option in your fstab should make it possible to mount without using
>>sudo. If that does not work you should check the permissions of the
>>device:
>>$ ls -l /dev/fd0
>>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2006-05-18 17:18 /dev/fd0
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> That's exactly what I get:
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>>ls -l /dev/fd0
>>brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2006-06-02 12:01 /dev/fd0
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> George Langford
Hi All,
I am having similar problems. Not only can I not write to the floppy as
a user (I am a member of the floppy group), but it will not automount -
I have to manually mount it using the su command (sudo does not work for
me). This also affects my USB pen drive - which will also not automount.
My floppy and usbdrive lines in fstab are:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,user,noexec,user 0 2
/dev/sda1 /usbdrive vfat rw,user,exec,user 0 2
I played around with the last column to try to get them to mount - no
joy... Now I just get errors on boot. I know that sda1 is the right
device for the USB drive, because when I mount it in su mode, I can read
and write to it. Could the problem be the type of directory that I am
linking these devices to and *their* permissions?
The entries in my auto.misc file look like this:
floppy -fstype=auto,rw,user,suid :/dev/fd0
usbdrive -fstype=auto,rw,user,suid :/dev/sda1
I checked the permissions of both files and they are almost exactly as
above (except for the date/time). I know that it is possible to get
both to automount, because I did it on another Debian system I set up
ages ago under "Woody".
Regards,
Chris
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