On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote: > it occured to me the other day to try mounting > a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system. > > I can mount the floppy with > > mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 > > as root and things work OK but under no circumstances > can I mount it from my floppy icon. > > I don't have my fstab here but if it is required > I can post it tonight or tomorrow.
You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give it a different name (and thus a different directory under /mnt). Dave -- Blessed be those who initiate lively discussions with the hopelessly mute, for they shall be know as Dentists.
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