Changing ownership on floppy
Eric Weir
eeweir at bellsouth.net
Thu Oct 2 21:16:13 BST 2008
Thanks, Kevin. What I've got is "something like, but certainly not
identical. In my condition of relative ignorance, it looks to me like I
shouldn't be having the experience I'm having. [Does it say it should
automount and that it's owned by user?].
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
Again, any insights would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir at bellsouth.net
Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> Make sure your floppy line in /etc/fstab looks something like:
>
> # Floppy Drive
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0
>
> It should automount floppy disks upon insertion and double-clicking
> the floppy drive under Places, Computer. I don't know what kind of
> permissions will be used, as the floppy disks are probably FAT16/32
> which don't really use permissions. They'll probably be set to
> read/write for the user who mounted the floppy drive though.
>
> Kevin Fishburne
>
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> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:17 -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
>> I have some old files on floppies that I want to copy to my hard disk. I
>> am able to mount the drive only with sudo on the terminal. After it's
>> mounted, ownership is root. When I try to change that by sudoing chown,
>> I am told "Operation not permitted." I thought sudo gave you root
>> privileges. Is there a way around this Catch-22?
>>
>> At the risk of ticking off people who otherwise might be inclined to
>> help, I have to say that this is one of the things that's really
>> irritating about Linux, and that is driving me away from it. I have been
>> patiently -- well, honestly, sometimes pretty *impatiently* -- trying to
>> understand it, assuming that eventually things that used to mystify
>> would become intuitive.
>>
>> I guess some have. Probably many have, given where I started. But over a
>> year into this and I can't even use my own frigging floppy drive without
>> asking for help? [I checked a couple books I have. I went to
>> linuxcommand.org for help with the commands. I posted on another forum.
>> Two hours have passed. Now I'm trying you guys.] I'm *tired* of this.
>>
>> If you can forgive the rant, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Eric Weir
>> Decatur, GA USA
>> eeweir at bellsouth.net <mailto:eeweir at bellsouth.net>
>>
>>
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