Re: floppy mount and msdos

From: Debian User (debian-user_at_zerocrossings.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:54:18 -0500

    At Monday, 22 December 2003, "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.
    org> wrote:

    >On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 at 20:17 GMT, Debian User penned:
    >> At Monday, 22 December 2003, Debian User <debian-user@zerocrossings.
    >> com> wrote:
    >>
    >>>i am interested in moving a tar ball from a windows 2000 machine
    to my
    >>>non-networked linux machine ... kernel 2.2.20. the floppy is listed
    in
    >>>fstab as:
    >>>
    >>>/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
    >>>
    >>>at the shell prompt, mount displays:
    >>>
    >>>/dev/fd0 on /floppy type msdos (rw)
    >>>
    >>>looks good, right?
    >>>
    >>>i copied the g-zipped tarball onto the floppy at the windows machine.
    >>>i list the contents at the shell prompt when i put the floppy
    into the
    >>>linux machine and a whole lot of attempts to access beyond the end of
    >>>the device errors are reported.
    >>>
    >>>is something missing from the kernel to support the windows ftype?
    >>>
    >> hmm ... i deleted the mount entry from /etc/mtab and mounted the
    >> device again. looks like it works this time. umount -f ... would not
    >> unmount the device however.
    >
    >If the floppy is fat-formatted, a workaround might be to use the mtools
    >(mdir and friends) ...
    >
    >--

    i deleted the mtab entry and was able to remount the device. 

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