Mandy,
Yes, it matters very much that the disks are formatted for DOS /
Windows. Notice the third parameter on the fstab entry you show below. It
says that the filesystem type of the device you are trying to use in the
floppy drive is ext2. This is the default filesystem for a Linux system.
The default filesystem for a DOS / Windows system is the FAT filesystem,
and under Linux, this translates to the 'msdos' filesystem. So, there are
two ways you can work around your problem :
1. Do 'mount /dev/fd0 -t msdos /mnt/floppy' when you are root. This will
mount the floppy so that you can read and write to it in DOS format.
2. Look up the man page for 'mkfs' and use it to create an ext2
filesystem on the floppy disk. Now, when you try 'mount', it should work.
But any contents written to an ext2 filesystem will not be visible under
DOS / Windows which will report that either the floppy is corrupted or
that your diskette is not formatted.
Regards,
Kenneth
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Mandy Williams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I assumed i knew what was going on when i was mounting my floppy....well i
> guess i don't. OK......I cannot mount ANY floppy except my linux boot disk!!
> When i try any other disk, it says:
>
> Could not mount
> Error log:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
> mounted file systems.
>
> What is this?? The disks are Windows formatted but should that matter?? I am
> thinking I used to be able to do it!
>
> My fstab looks like this:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> Is that ok?? i changed it a while back to let normal users mount.
>
> What could be wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mandy
>
