Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:22:40 -0400 (EDT), Dom <toyer@rpdom.net> wrote:
> > On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze.
> >> I am on uptodate x86 kernel,
> >> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35
> >>
> >> $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or
> >> $ mount /floppy
> >>
> >> Puts out in messages ...
> >> [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
> >> filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
> > This is just an information message. Don't worry about it.
> >> But no floppy is really mounted
> >> ...
> >
> > I had a similar problem, which was caused by udisks-daemon.
> > What was happening was that I mounted
> > the floppy, and, almost immediately, udisks-daemon dismounted it.
> > (I'm currently running Wheezy, but
> > believe this was the case in Squeeze too).
> >
> > I'm sure there must be something I've overlooked,
> > but I ended up stopping the daemon when I wanted
> > to use a floppy, and restarting it again afterwards.
>
> Merely inserting a floppy disk in the floppy drive may cause
> an auto-mount of the floppy disk, but not necessarily where
> you want it mounted. After inserting the floppy disk in the
> floppy drive, wait a few seconds, then issue the "mount" command
> with no operands to see if and where it was mounted. If it is not
> mounted, use the udisks command to mount the floppy, instead of the
> regular mount command. Issue "man udisks" for more information.
>
> --
> .''`. Stephen Powell
> : :' :
> `. `'`
> `-
>
>
Yes, this one did the trick...
tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0
Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media/floppy0
Thanks a lot.
Is it possible to make mount aware of UDisks/devices/fd0 and the like?
On my system, mount works on everything in /etc/fstab except
floppy /dev/fd0 devices
USB sticks (floppies) get mounted automatically by inserting them to an
USB slot.
Many thanks
--
Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>
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