Changing ownership on floppy

[Kevin Fishburne]

True. What I meant by automount was that you didn't need to drop to the
command line, you could just double-click the floppy icon under Computer
and the command would be handled.

Kevin Fishburne
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On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:19 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:

> What's your definition of 'automount'?  A floppy disk will never
> automount on being inserted as floppy drives give no indication of this
> status, unlike optical or USB drives.  That fstab line should allow you
> to mount via 'mount /dev/fd0' as a normal user, and it will be owned as
> the user that performed the action. 
> 
> David
> 
> Eric Weir wrote:
> > 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,
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> >>
> >> Eight Virtues
> >>
> >> www:
> >> e-mail:
> >> phone: 	 http://sales.eightvirtues.com
> >>  sales at eightvirtues.com <mailto:sales at eightvirtues.com>
> >>  (770) 853-6271
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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