Could not mount device. floppy problem?
Have not used the floppy drive since quiet some time. As I wanted to mount the floppy I got the following info; Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy Tried as as root and got the information; :/home/cons # mount /media/floppy mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs' My fstab has following info about the floppy; /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 Have in the meantime also tried to mount the floppy as vfat because I use them mostly as DrDOS media. No success either. Could somebody help me with this medium? Additional info; I am running 9.3 on a Pentium II with KDE 3.5.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-03-25 at 17:54 +0700, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Tried as as root and got the information;
:/home/cons # mount /media/floppy mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs'
My fstab has following info about the floppy;
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
That fstab line is intended for automatically mounting the floppy. Simply reading from "/media/floppy" will mount it. If you want manually mount, use something like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Additional info; I am running 9.3 on a Pentium II with KDE 3.5.
If you want to disable automount: Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108 - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEJaxTtTMYHG2NR9URAiBHAJ9VJJQOJs9YPsv0VyjdJjbgHEjhgwCfWCUY OUIxKaEcH/+u7HtCUit+NQc= =FPWF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
The Saturday 2006-03-25 at 17:54 +0700, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Tried as as root and got the information;
:/home/cons # mount /media/floppy
mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs'
My fstab has following info about the floppy;
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
That fstab line is intended for automatically mounting the floppy. Simply reading from "/media/floppy" will mount it.
If you want manually mount, use something like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Additional info; I am running 9.3 on a Pentium II with KDE 3.5.
If you want to disable automount:
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson Carlos since I was having a simular problem I made the changes you suggested to fstab: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0 and also changed the group on floppy to users instead of root and changed the
On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:47, Carlos E. R. wrote: permissions to 755 (as root). I then rebooted and the group and permissions are changed back to: drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-04-04 09:47 floppy I rebooted and then tried the floppy. I get a message about mtab saying it is already mounted. mtab contains: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0 If I right click on the desktop floppy icon it says the floppy is unmounted. If I go back to the original fstab setting I can use the floppy from kmymoney and konqueror (as user) but not from the mycomputer or floppy Icons on the desktop. Do I need to remove the floppy statement from mtab? Sorry to be a pest but I've tried everything suggested, if I did it right. This all started when I did a clean install of SUSE 10.0 to a new harddisk. It was working on the old disk with 10.0. Any help or pointers would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Russ
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-04-04 at 10:17 -0700, Russbucket wrote:
On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
If you want to disable automount:
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108
Carlos since I was having a simular problem I made the changes you suggested to fstab: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0 and also changed the group on floppy to users instead of root and changed the permissions to 755 (as root). I then rebooted and the group and permissions are changed back to:
...
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0 If I right click on the desktop floppy icon it says the floppy is unmounted.
But of course: you neglected to read that email and apply the changes to 'hal' mentioned there. After you change that, you can edit fstab and use manual mount only.
Do I need to remove the floppy statement from mtab?
That file is dynamic, it is useless to edit it; it reflects reality. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEMrBItTMYHG2NR9URAttKAJ0bVAzwyszBZmFvOKzXAlKYDOQllACfRxjz ARytRbgGN8uVlzAd0Vhp874= =gpYQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
The Saturday 2006-03-25 at 17:54 +0700, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Tried as as root and got the information;
:/home/cons # mount /media/floppy
mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs'
My fstab has following info about the floppy;
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
That fstab line is intended for automatically mounting the floppy. Simply reading from "/media/floppy" will mount it.
If you want manually mount, use something like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Additional info; I am running 9.3 on a Pentium II with KDE 3.5.
If you want to disable automount:
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson This is the earliest email I have a copy of from you on this subject. There is no mention of changes to hal. Sorry i may have deleted it by accident. I
On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:47, Carlos E. R. wrote: thought I keep all threads on this subject. If you could send it again I would be forever in your debt. -- Russ
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-04-04 at 11:42 -0700, Russbucket wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:30:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Carlos E. R. Subject: Re: [SLE] automounting of Floppy 9.3 [solved: NOT automounting] X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108
This is the earliest email I have a copy of from you on this subject. There is no mention of changes to hal. Sorry i may have deleted it by accident. I thought I keep all threads on this subject.
If you could send it again I would be forever in your debt.
Send an email to <suse-linux-e-thread.10000 at suse.com>. Subject and contents are ignored. Send another to <suse-linux-e-help at suse.com> to learn why. Alternatively, use the list archive at http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/ - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEMsSAtTMYHG2NR9URAtcOAKCIRNbeu0JufY/ffoHhLA9prgLKVwCdEqYF Ey9mWHF9/BkY9OSY+QGfmg8= =7X+S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-04-04 at 21:09 +0200, I wrote:
X-Message-Number-for-archive: 236108 ...
Send an email to <suse-linux-e-thread.10000 at suse.com>. Subject and contents are ignored.
That should have been: <suse-linux-e-thread.236108 at suse.com>, of course. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEMwzctTMYHG2NR9URAsgoAJ9/9HyLUpiW9XYTas3exWZgaLhixACaA9MK ij3lWBn0rOuOkSY4bsfsnWE= =eR1e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:09, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip>
Send another to <suse-linux-e-help at suse.com> to learn why.
Alternatively, use the list archive at http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Thanks Carlos I found the instruction and will try them. Only question is they say to make the file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. I do not have that structure in SUSE10.0. I have /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy # then under policy I have 10osvendor and 20thirdparty. the 10osvendor has 6 fdi file and the 20thirdparty has none. Am I correct in assuming I can put the new noautomount.fdi under the 10osvendor or where should I put it? Thanks again for all your help. -- Russ
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-04-05 at 10:00 -0700, Russbucket wrote:
Thanks Carlos I found the instruction and will try them. Only question is they say to make the file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. I do not have that structure in SUSE10.0. I have /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy # then under policy I have 10osvendor and 20thirdparty. the 10osvendor has 6 fdi file and the 20thirdparty has none. Am I correct in assuming I can put the new noautomount.fdi under the 10osvendor or where should I put it?
The instructions were for SuSE 9.3, but they will be very similar for 10.0, I guess. I can not really know for certain, as I don't use 10.0. I suppose you could put it in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/noautomount.fdi, or in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/95userpolicy/noautomount.fdi I would try the later first. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFENBoqtTMYHG2NR9URAg+KAJ9ZjirleOiCqbIznuiI3CcrFXmoWQCfX1pP dQ7RQzziMyC9UQ+nf98ieOI= =r6G/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2006-04-05 at 10:00 -0700, Russbucket wrote:
Thanks Carlos I found the instruction and will try them. Only question is they say to make the file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. I do not have that structure in SUSE10.0. I have /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy # then under policy I have 10osvendor and 20thirdparty. the 10osvendor has 6 fdi file and the 20thirdparty has none. Am I correct in assuming I can put the new noautomount.fdi under the 10osvendor or where should I put it?
The instructions were for SuSE 9.3, but they will be very similar for 10.0, I guess. I can not really know for certain, as I don't use 10.0. I suppose you could put it in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/noautomount.fdi, or in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/95userpolicy/noautomount.fdi
I would try the later first.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson Thanks I will let you know how it works but I may not get to it for a day or so. -- Russ
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