Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Floppy In Fstab

[Kathy Wills]

Ernie Schroder wrote:

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 08:38 pm, Kathy Wills wrote:
 

Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
   

Kathy Wills wrote:
     

I have tried the following in my fstab file:

/dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy  ext3    users,ro  0 0

and

/dev/floppy  /mnt/floppy ext3   users,ro  0 0

Of course, it has the proper spacing in the actual file. I keep
getting the message that it is not a block device. Can someone
please tell me what I am doing wrong?
       

Hi Kathy,

u do not like read manuals, don't u ?

In both of lines u have mistakes in flag "user" :-(
/dev/floppy is not dev special, but directory, therefore the
error :-) really u like to use ext3 FS on floppy ? (M$ floppy
uses vfat)
let's try this:

/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto  user,noauto 0 0
     

That is one of the ways I tried. I was still getting the error
message about it. Yes, I read the manuals. Everything I had tried
came up with the error message.
   

Kathy,
        Try it like this:
/dev/fd0		/mnt/floppy	vfat		noauto,users,auto,rw	0 0
 

This is the combination that finally worked.

/dev/floppy/0               /mnt/floppy            ext3,vfat            
users,noauto,rw         0 0

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