<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">"The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid."</span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">This means the directory does not exists isn't it? You can create it and give ownership to user, and maybe a 777 mod...</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-18 21:24 GMT-03:00 Israel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:israeldahl@gmail.com" target="_blank">israeldahl@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp
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I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC. He
also has a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few
familiar programs, and wants to ferry some files back and forth
between the two PC's using floppies.<br>
<br>
This should be no problem, except that the floppy mounts in
Lubuntu with root ownership, and only root can change content, so
ordinary users cannot copy files to or edit files on a floppy.<br>
<br>
Someone somewhere (!) reported that the behavior could be
duplicated in a virtual machine with no actual floppy drive.<br>
<br>
Design behavior should be that the floppy mounts with the
logged-in user as owner, which is what happens with USB flash
drives.<br>
<br>
As far as I can tell, this is a new instance of a regression in
the kernel and/or udisks2 that has previously been reported and
fixed.<br>
<br>
See for instance:<br>
<a href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63849" target="_blank">udisks2
mounts floppy disk as root</a><br>
<a href="http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/297" target="_blank">Bug fix released</a><br>
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190" target="_blank">udisks2:
mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal
users)</a><br>
<br>
I couldn't figure out how to get floppies to mount with the
logged-in user as owner, but I do have a sloppy workaround that
sets a permission to allows anyone to change content on the
floppy. This was inspired by comment #11 at <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222487&page=2" target="_blank">Floppies
mount fine, but can't seem to edit them in Xubuntu 14.04</a>.<br>
<br>
The sloppy workaround in my case is to add this line to
/etc/fstab:<br>
/dev/fd0 /media/user1/disk vfat
rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0<br>
<br>
This will work fine in a one-user installation, but it fails in a
multi-user installation. With user2 as the logged in user,
clicking on Floppy Disk in pcmanfm to mount it causes the error: <br>
The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid.<br>
<br>
I would be happy to hear about it if someone can come up with an
improved workaround!<br>
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Hi<br>
It should be possible to run: <br>
<br>
sudo umount /path/to/floppy<br>
sudo mkdir /media/floppy<br>
<br>
fd0 was taken from your e-mail... it may be different on other
systems..<br>
sudo mount -o users /dev/fd0 /media/floppy<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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