On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Stefan Troeger wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:45 -0500, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
> 
> > However when I change the fstab entry to......
> > 
> > /dev/fd0       /floppy                    auto            
>rw,noauto,user,exec,umask=000
> > 
> > and issue a mount /floppy/ command it says......
> > 
> > zuli@L31:/home/zuli > mount /floppy/
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> >        or too many mounted file systems
> [...]
> > It's werid :-)
> 
> Indeed. When I put it in, it works. The mount man page says that
> with the auto option the superblock gets probed and that the
> heuristics used for the probing sometimes fails.

I get the same error, but I've found that it works if I use the
"defaults" option. Of course then the system tries to mount /floppy at
boot time, which leads to a different error message in the syslog.

Phil
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