Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I would however still like to know the mount command syntax to use if I do not know the file system on it and it hasn't already been mounted via the fstab file. Can I always use the mount point of /mnt/floppy? Help wit the mount syntax required.
mount won't know how to figure out the filesystem. You either tell it by what is in /etc/fstab, or you tell it on the command line:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /share What if you don't know the fs? I mean more along the lines of floppy disks as they could be from a Windows or linux system. Harddrives are more simple as usually you know what was on the hdd before hand and can
Geoffrey wrote: therefore ascertain its fs. Would the * wildcard suffice in place of the known fs type?
As for /mnt/floppy, it's nothing more than a directory. You can mount it on any directory, but you really only want to mount it on an empty directory. You could do this:
mkdir /mnt/foobar
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/foobar Understood.
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