Submitted 24-Aug-00 by David G. Thiessen:
> Here is the line from my /etc/fstab
> /mnt/floopy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
^^^^
There's part of the problem. Supermount doesn't properly understand fs=auto.
You have to use either vfat ot ext2 (it chokes on minix, too). Also, for
security reasons, you should have the options nosuid,nodev added after the
dev= part
> The line for the cdrom is similar
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
ditto about options.
> when i try to mount using the console i get:
> mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Right. That's because it really isn't in fstab. Supermount entries are of
a different format than "real" fstab entries which define the device first.
You have to be more specific to mount in that case:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> i have tried replacing the fs=auto with fs=ext2 and fs=vfat and i still
> get the same problem.
Remember also that when you specify a specific file system it will fail when
there is a disk with the other in the drive.
Another important consideration (and a big reason *not* to use supermount on
floppies) is that supermount does not gracefully handle incorrect device
access. For example, many rescue disks/micro distributions come on extended
format dloppies (like 1743 or 1840 K on a disk). These use the special
block devices /dev/fd0u{1743,1840}. If you try to access them using
/dev/fd0, you will generate several warning/error messages because the
device is incompatible with the disk format. And, if you're using
supermount on that device, those errors will be followed by a kernel panic.
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