On Thu, 4 May 2000, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote:
> I have a little problem. After a session mounting and
> unmounting floppies on a linux box, I would arrive at a
> vicious circle:
>
> command: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
> response: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt busy
> command: umount /mnt
> response: /mnt: not mounted
>
> How can I break this impasse? I know I could always
> reboot and things return to normal or mount on another
> directory. But short of those, can this unwanted
> symptom be removed?
>
> TIA
> Shaggy
If you have an /etc/fstab file look at it and see if an entry for
/dev/fd0.
Mine has as follows;
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto owner,noauto 0 0
Note that the dev is set to auto.
This means that when I mount my /mnt/floppy it will work with an ext2 or
vfat formatted disk.
If you don't have a dir '/mnt/floppy' create one and also when you do want
to umount it make sure you are not in that dir.
Warren
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