on Mon, Jun 17, 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:59:56PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > I have a question about "floppies". First, quaint, aren't they? OK, > > In /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > > That's normal.
Note that the search order for filesystems is given by /etc/filesystems,
if it exists, or /proc/filesystems. The difference being that you can
dictate the order of filesystems in /etc/filesystems, if you, say,
prefer seeing vfat attempted before msdos.
> > But doesn't that mean that if I insert a "unformatted" or
> > "scrambled" floppy, it will fail auto detection as to what file
> > system type it is and one will not be able to proceed?
>
> Correct. It is impossible to mount something that isn't a filesystem.
Hmm...
...you might be able to access data on it, however. My test would be
writing a tar archive raw to disk, then browsing it with mc:
$ tar cvf /dev/fd0 foo/
$ mc
...navigate to /dev/fd0
I'll have to try that....
Peace.
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