Floppy problems

[Robbo]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 09:00 +0930, squareyes wrote: 
> Robbo wrote:

> Hi Robbo,
> mount is as follows
> squareyes at squareyes:~ $ mount
> /dev/hda1 on /windows type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=000)
> /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy0 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)


How did you mount the floppy?  


> No user showing, but is in Fstab below
> 
> Fstab :
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda5       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/hda7       /home           ext2    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda6       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,auto  0       0
> /dev/hda1       /windows        vfat    rw,umask=000,users,auto   0       0
> 
> have tried changing "auto" to vfat, same result.,


Add to your floppy options the umask=000 option (like your /windows
options).   This will when mounted by default set all permissions to be
rwx by all.  Also change the auto option to noauto as currently it will
mount (or try to) the floppy on boot up.  If you have a floppy in whilst
booting up, your current options will make only root have rw access to
it.

PS. if you mount the floppy as root using the command
"mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0" then you will be ignoring the options in
fstab.  If your using the command line to mount the floppy use
"mount /media/floppy" as a user, or you can do as root if you make the
umask change as above.

Use man mount to lookup the other options (such as noauto)

> I realize floppy is a primitive device, but so am I , still not ready to 
> be put
> out to pasture :-) I do find them to be unreliable, but with 2 machines 
> side by side,

Floppys may be primitive but the above options are the same for a USB 
disk, so the info gain isn't as redundant as many floppy drives are these 
days!