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Why can I not mount floppy?

Here is fstab:

Code:

LABEL=/                        /                ext3                defaults                1 1

LABEL=/boot                /boot                ext3                defaults                1 2

devpts                        /dev/pts        devpts                gid=5,mode=620                0 0

tmpfs                        /dev/shm        tmpfs                defaults                0 0

proc                        /proc                proc                defaults                0 0

sysfs                        /sys                sysfs                defaults                0 0

LABEL=SWAP-sda3                swap                swap                defaults                0 0

/dev/hdb2                /mnt/shared        vfat                users,rw,owner,umask=0        0 0

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

/dev/hdd                /mnt/ls120        auto                noauto,rw,user                0 0

And :

Code:

ls -al /mnt/

total 56

drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Oct 10 17:06 .

drwxr-xr-x 25 root root  4096 Dec 30 07:04 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 25  2006 dvd

drwxr-xrw-  2 root root  4096 Jun 22  2006 floppy

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jul 16 07:09 ls120

drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 16384 Dec 31  1969 shared

But:

Code:

mount /dev/fd0

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

Then tried:

Code:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0

mount: only root can do that

Also tried, even if I do not hink I should have to:
Code:

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd0

This only throughs the help page.
This disk is a fat formated disk.

What am I missing?

I use FC6 (upgraded form FC5) + all the updates on X86-64 kernel.

how about

Code:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

or maybe

Code:

mount /mnt/floppy

The idea is mount something somewhere as in mount the device to a mount point.

Quote:

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

By this it looks as if it is mounted. Have you got a disk in the drive?

Code:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

returns:

Code:

mount: only root can do that

and,

Code:

mount /mnt/floppy

returns:

Code:

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

Yes I do have a DOS disk in the drive.

There's a set of tools called "mtools", consisting of mcopy mdir, etc, that are used to handle MSDOS floppies.

mtools is loaded on most distros by default. To use it, just open a console window and type mdir a: (for example). You could be able to get a directory of the files on the floppy.

man mtools for a list of all the utilities, or just type mtools --help for a short listing of the commands supplied by mtools.

Quote:

Originally Posted by w6bi

That is good and well, thanks for the suiggestion.
I am still puzzeld why mount commnad does not work:confused: