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[k01164@xxxxxxxxx (Ole Kofoed Hansen)]

I forgot to send this to the list the first time, but here it comes:

> Argentium G. Tiger <agtiger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > I have a 1.44 meg diskette.  It has just been freshly formatted
> > on a Windows system in a dos box with the following options:
> > "FORMAT A: /U" (unconditional format).
> > 
> > The format was 100% successful and no bad sectors were
> > detected or reported.
> > 
> > I take my freshly formatted FAT-16 (and obviously write enabled)
> > floppy over to my SuSE 6.2 machine at work.
> > 
> > mount /floppy
> > (no problem, it mounts.)
> > 
> > cd /usr/doc/packages/diald
> > (where I'm going to copy some files from)
> > 
> > Here begins the copy attempts.
> > 
> > cp diald-faq.txt /floppy/dialdfaq.txt
> > cp: /floppy/dialdfaq.txt: Operation not permitted
> > 
> > ls -al /floppy
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        37768 Nov  5 09:59 dialdfaq.txt
> > 
> > Ok, so the file copied in its entirety.
> > 
> > So I try to copy another file...
> > 
> > cp README /floppy
> > cp: /floppy/README: Operation not permitted
> > ls -al /floppy
> > rw-r--r--   1 root     root        37768 Nov  5 09:59 dialdfaq.txt
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root     root         7417 Nov  5 10:02 readme
> > 
> > Ok, so that copied too.  Sometimes, however, the file simply refuses
> > to copy, and won't show up in a listing of /floppy.  When this happens,
> > I'll get the same "Operation not permitted" error.
> > 
> > I'm thinking this must have something to do with an inherent assumption
> > Linux is making about what file system a diskette will have, and that I
> > may have to play with /etc/fstab to define a /dosfloppy mounting point
> > for fat-16 file systems.  Perhaps I should make it fat-32 to support
> > long filenames...
> 
> Those permission errors you get when it actually succeeds in copying,
> are caused by the cp trying to change permissions on the file after it
> is written. Since the file is now owned by root it cannot be done.
> 
> I suggest you take a look at the mtools package for when you need to copy
> stuff on DOS-formatted floppies.
> 
> It includes several of the wellknown DOS command just with an m in front of
> the name. Like: mdir, mcopy, mdel and a few more.
> 
> > 
> > Am I on the right track yet, or what?
> > 
> > While I'm here asking about /floppy...  How *do* you lay down a fresh
> > filesystem one one of those with Linux?
> 
> take a look at man mkfs
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ole
> 
> 


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