-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-05-31 at 23:25 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
Can someone help me see what is wrong here?
Try on a konsole "ls /media/floppy". If it fails, try "mount /media/floppy". If it works, don't forget to umount.
The system, as you can see from the above, says that the floppy is already mounted.
Here is the result of your suggestion:
stan@poblano:~> ls /media/floppy stan@poblano:~> mount /media/floppy mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy stan@poblano:~>
Which confirms that the drive was mounted. But if so, why does it not display the contents of the diskette that is in the drive?
Ok, then try to umount, then mount - manually.
As I understand the fstab content, I don't need to umount explicitly; that should happen when the diskette is removed from the drive. Is that not so?
Certainly not! First you umount, which means that the memory structures the kernel maintains are removed, and the cache flushed. The, you can umount without loosing data. Unless your drive is special and has an eject button that transmits a request to the kernel, and the drive has a motor to eject the floppy - in cdrom fashion. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoi7Q8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VBhACgjgwgGuIL9nyzpQuNtjl5Z2Oc ZesAn3ZY3Y+XKcGSBmLygFROT5kq3JFC =Bslu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org