Linux versus floppy
- Posted by Jerry Story <jstory at edmc.net> Jun 09, 2003
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irvm at ellijay.com wrote: > > > 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 This is what I had in my /etc/fstab file: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I added: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto users Is this correct? Jerry Story