GUI (KDE) Mounting of Floppy

vtel57 · 05-17-2007, 05:20 PM

Hello LQers,

I'm having a bit of a problem with my Slack installation. I don't use my floppy that often, so I hadn't noticed this before.

When trying to user-mount the floppy in KDE - Konqueror, the floppy will mount, but Konq does not show the mounted icon for the floppy. The only way I know it's mounted is because I can access the data in the /media/floppy directory.

Another problem is that since Konq doesn't show the floppy as mounted, I can't RIGHT click on the icon and unmount. I have to "umount" at the command line as Root.

Here's my fstab entry for the floppy:

Quote:

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0

Any ideas?

adriv · 05-17-2007, 05:25 PM

Mine is this:

Code:

/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,user,exec     0   0

To be honest, I hardly ever use floppies, so I wouldn't know if this is any help.

vtel57 · 05-17-2007, 05:37 PM

COOL! Mounting the floppy in the /mnt directory makes the difference. I wonder why? Well, it works correctly now. That's what matters.

Thanks, adriv!

vtel57 · 05-17-2007, 06:06 PM

Well, I spoke to soon. It only worked once. After unmounting, it wouldn't mount again. Weird.

Current fstab:

Code:

/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy     auto     rw,noauto,user,sync    0     0

rworkman · 05-17-2007, 08:19 PM

This is a known bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136123

vtel57 · 05-17-2007, 09:49 PM

Hmm... thanks rworkman! That does explain a lot. I think I'm having a similar problem in Mepis right now, too. I don't know about Mandriva. I'll have to test that later.

Thanks for the info!