[linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk
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A windows/dos formated floppy is NOT vfat.
It is msdos.
The floppy has NEVER used the 32bit vfat formatting.
Thus, since on RedHat linux the floppy already has a mount point defined
you MUST use one of two formats with the mount command.
1. "mount /dev/fd0" or its equivalent "mount /mnt/floppy"
either of which will use the default definition of the mount point
from the /etc/fstab file to mount the floppy with both filesystem type
and mount point.
2. "mount /dev/fd0 user/defined/mount/point"
which will look at the floppy, determine it is msdos type, and mount
it in the specified directory.
or the alternative
"mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 user/defined/mount/point"
which will mount it at the specified point but explicitly defines
the filesystem type.
Either of these 2 options will fail if the floppy is not a dos/windows
formatted floppy.
With any of the above mount methods, the unmount is the same
"umount /dev/fd0"
Hareesh Haridas wrote:
> hi,
> i think the floppy you wanted to mount was not a dos-formatted
> floppy and so the '-t vfat' argument was not required here. and congrats
> on getting it right. wish you a good experience with linux!
>
> regards,
> hareesh.
>
>
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- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, Hareesh Haridas, 2002/08/18
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk,
Jeff Vian <=
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, Dale W Hodge, 2002/08/18
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, Jeff Vian, 2002/08/19
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman), 2002/08/19
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, D. Shane Robinson, 2002/08/19
- [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk, D. Shane Robinson, 2002/08/19
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