Changing ownership on floppy

[Eric Weir]

Well, perhaps you understand why, but it mounted with me as owner. I am 
able to copy the files I wanted to copy.

Previously I mounted it with 'sudo mount /media/floppy0'. Is there an 
explanation in that, i.e., why root ended up owning it? Because I used sudo?

Thanks,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eeweir at bellsouth.net

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:
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>>     
>>> 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:
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>>>> 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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