Re: [SOLVED] Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> I have been able to circumvent the problem
>> by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting:
>>
>> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>> /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>>
>> Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not
>> run with root privileges, it can't mess me up.
>
> I've been systematically deleting the emails in this thread unread. I
> was about to do the same with this one when I remembered a
> Ubuntu-users thread/rant about floppies where the apparent solution
> was to keep the above lines in "/etc/fstab" and mount floppies with
> "udisks --mount /dev/fdX". Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing
> and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without "ubuntufying"
> it...
That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding
udisks --unmount /dev/fdX
command unmounts the floppy. It appears that udisks has taken over
the mounting and unmounting of removable-media devices just like
network manager has taken over network devices. I don't think
we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.
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