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Re: Linux versus floppy WHOOPS Correction!

• Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jun 09, 2003
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On Monday 09 June 2003 08:18 am, Jerry Story wrote:
>
> Now it quit working completely. Used to be able to read it, but not
> write to it. Now can't read, can't write, can't fix, don't have a clue.

Hi Jerry:

Linux (as did Unix) makes the assumption that the 'user' is not 
to be trusted to do things like mount disk drives, etc. 
Therefore the stock setup is usually overly paranoid about 
who has access to what.

Here is how I have set things up, and I can read/write VFAT, MSDOS,
EXT2, and Mac disks ok:

1. I have the directories /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, and /mnt/windows.
2. using applications/file tools/file manager (super user mode) ,
look at permissions for /mnt. I have user: root, group: root, and 
User: Show Entries, Write Entries, Enter checked.
Group: Show Entries, Enter checked
Others: Show Entries, Enter checked

Permissions on /mnt/floppy are: User: root, Group: root,
Show Entries, Write Entries, Enter checked for all three (User, Group, Others)

Just to be sure, as root, issue: umount /mnt/floppy

Now, as root, edit /etc/fstab. 
The line refering to /mnt/floppy looks like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto users
That will allow you to mount / unmount disks as a user. 

For convenience, I would then right click on the desktop, select 
Create New / Floppy Device, give it a name "floppy", and select 
from the Device tab Device /dev/fd0 (mnt/floppy).

Then you should be able to just click on the "floppy" icon and 
aujtomatically mount any disk which is in the disk drive, regardless 
of the file type. And just drag and drop files there to be stored. 

Remember that disk writes are buffered, so it's necessary to unmount 
a disk before removing it. Just right click on the icon and select "unmount"
from the menu.

Hope this helps,
Irv