Re: [newbie] How to use new floppy drive on laptop?

From: /\\/\\ichau Smoczyk (msmoczyk_at_wp.pl)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:45:13 +0200

Kevin Nathan wrote:

> Can be either. 'user' allows any user to mount the device but only the
> user that mounted it can unmount it. 'users' allows any user to unmount
> even if they didn't mount it in the first place . . . :-)

Thank you Kevin! I've changed /user/ to /users/ and it helped. I don't know
why it makes the difference - mounting and unmounting floppy diskette is
done by the same user (me). However, it helped. Regards, 

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