Re: [SLE] automount floppies

From: muzh Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:33:57 +1300 Message-Id: <00120214335700.00989@cll> Subject: Re: [SLE] automount floppies I'm not quite sure what you mean. In my setup I have a line in /etc/fstab which says something like /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 This enables any user to mount and umount /floppy In KDE or Gnome the user has merely to click on the icon to access the disk. On Saturday 02 December 2000 01:33, Florian Kleedorfer wrote:

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Hi!

For quite some time now I have been trying to make it possible for the users of my suse linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16) systems to use floppy disks under linux as they do under win/dos.

I have tried the fdutils package which I am not too overwhelmed by.

Autofs is not really what I need, as it has certain drawbacks (mount point not visible before mounting, umounting a floppy not possible if it is still busy, inconsistencies when changing floppies, etc.)

I have found some info on supermount (a kernel patch) which seems to do exactly what I want, but I haven't found any patches for kernel 2.2.16 yet.

And there may be some other methods I havent heard of yet. Maybe there's some special suse-package that does what I want?

Any hints are appreciated!

Thanx

Florian Kleedorfer

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