Re: [SOLVED] Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: ... I have been able to circumvent the problem by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not run with root privileges, it can't mess me up. was to keep the above lines in /etc/fstab and mount floppies with udisks --mount /dev/fdX. That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding udisks --unmount /dev/fdX command unmounts the floppy. It appears that udisks has taken over the mounting and unmounting of removable-media devices just like network manager has taken over network devices. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto. You're welcome. Definitely not Kansas; probably more like Mars, especially since udisks was called devkit-disks not long ago so we're being kept on our toes... (I presume that the u comes from udev but it's a total WAG.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinp6r4ustcshyjd-kmnjmj5plr+ijbp5nxpr...@mail.gmail.com
Re: [SOLVED] Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: ... I have been able to circumvent the problem by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Now only root can mount and umount floppies. Since GNOME does not run with root privileges, it can't mess me up. I've been systematically deleting the emails in this thread unread. I was about to do the same with this one when I remembered a Ubuntu-users thread/rant about floppies where the apparent solution was to keep the above lines in /etc/fstab and mount floppies with udisks --mount /dev/fdX. Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without ubuntufying it... That works, Tom. Thanks! And of course the corresponding udisks --unmount /dev/fdX command unmounts the floppy. It appears that udisks has taken over the mounting and unmounting of removable-media devices just like network manager has taken over network devices. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/756185743.1198334.1292883195645.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
