I can mount a floppy with the write protect tab enabled, but I can't
manage to get this same floppy to mount on boot up with the write protect
tab enabled. I have to make it writeable (the tab) or else I get the
error I descibe below.
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Gary Hodges wrote:
> I have a floppy which I would like to mount read only automatically on
> boot up. If I have the read only tab on the floppy set to writable, then
> everything goes OK. If the floppy tab is set read only, I get the
> following during boot up:
>
> **************************************************************************
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem. If device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem
> (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt,
> and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock.
>
> e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> **************************************************************************
>
> What can I do to get around this? I've tried several different things in
> my fstab, but I get the same results.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
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