deletion of /dev files

[R Kimber]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:46:38 -0800
Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:36 PM, R Kimber wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:44:38 -0500
> > Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> R Kimber wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Well, you probably don't want it to be in fstab, anyway.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> So, how do I know how to refer to it in a script so that I can
> >>> mount it and unmount it?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> With it's /dev name of course.  Which should not go away unless you
> >> unplug the drive.
> >
> > But how do I tell it that its an ext2 system and not fat ?  Not
> > having an entry in fstab, it seems to expect fat, and if I try to
> > mount it it says
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
> >        missing codepage or other error
> >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >        dmesg | tail  or so
> > and dmesg says
> > [  345.801075] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> > [  345.801085] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda4
> >
> 
> When invoking mount in your script, use 'mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4  
> <destination>'.

Yes but

~/>mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4 /media/zip
mount: only root can do that

-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/