On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp wrote: > I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC. He also > has a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few familiar > programs, and wants to ferry some files back and forth between the two > PC's using floppies. > > This should be no problem, except that the floppy mounts in Lubuntu > with root ownership, and only root can change content, so ordinary > users cannot copy files to or edit files on a floppy. > > Someone somewhere (!) reported that the behavior could be duplicated > in a virtual machine with no actual floppy drive. > > Design behavior should be that the floppy mounts with the logged-in > user as owner, which is what happens with USB flash drives. > > As far as I can tell, this is a new instance of a regression in the > kernel and/or udisks2 that has previously been reported and fixed. > > See for instance: > udisks2 mounts floppy disk as root > <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63849> > Bug fix released <http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/297> > udisks2: mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal > users) <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190> > > I couldn't figure out how to get floppies to mount with the logged-in > user as owner, but I do have a sloppy workaround that sets a > permission to allows anyone to change content on the floppy. This was > inspired by comment #11 at Floppies mount fine, but can't seem to edit > them in Xubuntu 14.04 > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222487&page=2>. > > The sloppy workaround in my case is to add this line to /etc/fstab: > /dev/fd0 /media/user1/disk vfat > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 > > This will work fine in a one-user installation, but it fails in a > multi-user installation. With user2 as the logged in user, clicking > on Floppy Disk in pcmanfm to mount it causes the error: > The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid. > > I would be happy to hear about it if someone can come up with an > improved workaround! > > Hi It should be possible to run:
sudo umount /path/to/floppy sudo mkdir /media/floppy fd0 was taken from your e-mail... it may be different on other systems.. sudo mount -o users /dev/fd0 /media/floppy -- Regards
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