[linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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