report cards read-only on floppy

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:

> I'm to write report cards in Open Office. I use a floppy so I can go 
> from school PC to my studio PC to my daughter's PC to my wife's PC. 
> And yes, I do backups here and there but I will lose some informaitn 
> if I don't solve this permissions thing. I thought that chmod 777 -R 
> /mnt/floppy/* usually fixes any problems that arise but not this time. 
> Now I can't even get into the files (other than as read-only) on my 
> own PC.
>
> Any ideas?

I'm constantly being reminded everything on /mnt/floppy is a read-only 
file system (suddenly of course). /etc/fstab doesn't agree:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Chris

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