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by hoayfern

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Hi,

I am using slackware 7.0
I try to vi/etc/fstab and found the following contents:

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext 2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /usr ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /var ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5 , mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

the contents of the vi/etc/mtab

/dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda3 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /var ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hd5 /home ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5 , mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0

I didn't see my floopy disk being added in the mount table

How can I add the floopy disk in the mount table ??

May I know the command and what I have to put in the file system type column
??

please correct me if i am wrong:
add this entry at the /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 /mnt ext2 defaults 0 0

hoay fern

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by eugen prokopiev

You are right, but vfat is more common to floppies then ext2 FS. And there are some options making life better in this case:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto,quiet,noexec 0 0

Note the "noauto" option - it prevents init from mounting device during bootup. "user" makes mounting/unmounting avaliable to non-superusers. "quiet" suppresses messages such as "Can't chown..." on VFAT FS. And "noexec" removes "executable" attribute on all files.

Hope it'll help, Eugen

by mehuls77

Hi
Try this entry and see if it works, and make sure that apart fron this entry other entries and intact

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

try out and reply....
mehul

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