RE: [SLE] Fwd: Dos floppy + long filenames
-----Original Message----- From: Alvaro A. Novo [mailto:novo@uiuc.edu] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 11:08 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Fwd: Dos floppy + long filenames
Hi,
This is driving me nuts, particularly because I had it working, but can't make it work again. (I setup a new box.... and the old one is gone for 15 days, at least).
Suppose I have a Dos formatted floppy with a filename like mybigfieexample.txt. What do I need to place in fstab so that upon mounting the floppy I see:
mybigfileexample.txt and NOT mybigf~1.txt
I tried "auto" and "umdos" to no avail.
Isn't it "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppymountpoint"? Unfortunately I'm not at my favorite computer right now to double check. Greg Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC) wrote:
Isn't it "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppymountpoint"? Unfortunately I'm not at my favorite computer right now to double check.
Thanks to Thomas and Erland Moller, That's what I attempted before mailing the list, but due to the following curiosity I thought I was doing something (very) wrong: 1) click on kde's floppy icon, mounts floppy, right click to umount and I get the message: May 22 19:53:34 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev fd(2,0), block 19! But there's more, insert a new floppy and it will show you the previous floppy's content rather than new floppy's. 2) do it on the command line (xterm) mount /floppy umount /floppy No error message, everything works flawless!!! I can mount/umount ad infinitum floppies. Alvaro SuSE 6.3 Kernel 2.2.13 KDE 1.1.2 (w/ update for SuSE 6.3 kbase.rpm) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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