report cards read-only on floppy

Mel Wilson mwilson-4YeSL8/OYKRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 28 05:09:26 UTC 2006


Chris Aitken wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote:

>> 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

> 
> I can't even change ownership as the super user:
> 
> [root at p733 chris]# chown chris /mnt/floppy/*
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/news.0607.1.doc': Read-only 
> file system
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.aaliyah.1.doc': 
> Read-only file system
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/floppy/rpt.0607.jk.amber.1.doc': 
> Read-only file system

The write-protect tab wouldn't be set on the disk, would it?

... just in case ...
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