On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
> This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits
> end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months
> so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a
> nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R drives,
> even as root. The message is that 'access is denied, could not
> write to /mnt/floppy/foo.bar.
>
> If I use Supermount to mount the floppy and look at the
> permissions under properties the option selected is 'Owner can
> view content'. If I try to select 'Owner can view and modify
> content' there is an error message that "changing the attributes
> of files is not supported with protocol devices".
>
> If I try to mount a drive manually the error message is that
> there are too many file systems, bad superblock, etc. If I try
> to unmount the drive the message is that there is no drive
> mounted.
>
> This problem started with MDK 10.0 as downloaded. Thinking that
> this was the problem, I bought the pak from Mandrake but the
> problem is still there.
>
> The computer is a Sony Viao laptop but I was having the same
> problem on my desktop machine.
>
> There are a lot of important files that desperately need backing
> up, someone please help!
>
> Rich
Please post your /etc/fstab
Kaj Haulrich.
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