On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> > Floppy not in:
> > mount /aext2
> > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> >
> > Floppy in:
> > mount /aext2
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too
> > many mounted file systems.
>
> This proves or at the very least points to a floppy which is not a ext2
> formated floppy.
>
> Place any sort of floppy in drive a: (/dev/fd0).
> At this minute i am root.
>
> sys3:~# mke2fs /dev/fd0
Tried and got:
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
184 inodes, 1440 blocks
72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
184 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: 0/1done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Still can't mount as user. Can only mount as root when specifying:
mount /dev/fd0 /aext2
As root:
ls -al /aext2
total 17
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Dec 12 12:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 11 16:15 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Dec 12 12:37 lost+found/
> the line in /etc/tstab
> /dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 noauto,user 0 0
My current fstab:
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 /downloads ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /common vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /aext2 ext2 noauto,user,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /avfat vfat noauto,user,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda /zip ext2 noauto,user,unhide 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> ls -al /bin/mount
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 55360 Aug 1 19:16 /bin/mount*
Is:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 55360 Aug 1 13:16 /bin/mount*
> I conclude that your floppy is NOT an ext2 formatted floopy.
Sure it is because it was originally a Redhat installation disk and could
be mounted with no options. Has now been reformatted as seen above. The
zip drive was reformatted from fat to ext2 and has been successfully
mounted by root many times.
Thanks a lot for your continued patience. I had hoped it would be a quick
fix.
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