report cards read-only on floppy

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:04:43 -0500
Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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

Chris,

   On Fedora Core 3, this all seems to work without me doing anything, other than trying to mount the floppy of course.

   Try...

$ man 8 mount

   My old fstab line (which worked) was... 

/dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	auto	noauto,users	0	0

   Note that "users" and "user" are options for fstab.  The line above allows anyone to mount the device, and it allows anyone else to unmount it. 

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