fstab

[Bob Warren]

Mark Wieder wrote:
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I do think you should be looking at the first entry here instead of
the second. My admittedly partial understanding of the fstab file is
that the first column specifies the device itself and the second
column tells the OS where to mount it. The mount point is normally
/mnt, but not always (SuSE in particular uses /media).

What does the /dev/fd0 entry in your fstab look like? And what are
your user privileges when you're logged in looking at it?

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Sorry Mark, I can't tell you much more. I'm just in the process of 
replacing my Ubuntu with SuSE (on my old machine).

But as I said, in my Ubuntu Breezy (also up to date), the /dev/fd0 
wasn't appearing at all in the fstab (even after mounting and reading 
the floppy successfully)! [However, the mounted floppy did appear in the 
mtab file, but I have no idea what that is for.] I was logged in as a 
normal user, not as "root" (which is non-standard and normally not 
necessary in Ubuntu anyway).

Personally, I don't know what the hell is going on. Anyway, I have 
acquired a new machine for Linux today, so perhaps I'll install Ubuntu 
in it and see what appears/doesn't appear in the fstab. I'll let you know.

Regards,
Bob