yes, if he changed it to fs=ext2 he would beable to mount ext2 floppys
but NOY vfat ones, which would place him back in the same boat he is in.
with fs=vfat he cannot mount ext2
with fs=ext2 he cannot mount vfat
BUT
if he axes the cludge of supermount and reverts back to the working
fstab entry as he mentioned then he should beable to mount both vfat and
ext2 with the -t option to mount.
I had the same problem here.
I was able to reproduce the above results with consistancy.
Ron
Rich Clark wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Dennis Robertson wrote:
>
> > OK, here are the facts as they apply to my system. With supermount
> > enabled I cannot read ext2 floppies using any method suggested by the
> > list, mandrakeuser.org or devised by anyone, as far as I can tell.
> > With supermount disabled and using the conventional fstab entry
> > suggested by Ramon: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> > sync,user,noauto,nsuid,nodev,unhide 0 0 I used mount /mnt/floppy in a
> > term and then left clicked the desktop floppy icon. Lo and behold I
> > could open both vfat and ext2 floppies.
> > So there's a bug in supermount, right? How do some folks manage to use
> > it with ext2 floppies? Beats me. There's a bug in my system? I think
> > not.
> > Anyway it's very cumbersome and I don't mind using windows methods if
> > they're clearly better, as they would be in the case of supermount, if
> > only it worked. Roll on LM7.1.
> >
>
> Dennis, have you tried the following set of commands?
>
> umount /dev/fd0
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> With fstab being set this way:
>
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> I'd think that if you changed the entry in fstab so fs=ext2, you'd solve
> your problem.
>
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