/etc/fstab Lacks Mount Point For Floppy
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat Oct 16 22:48:30 UTC 2004
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:11:43PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>
>>I just updated to hal-0.4.0-3 and still can't get the
>>floppy device under the 624 kernel.
>>
>>
>
>Hm, I was just playing with hal-0.4.0-3 and although something
>is accessing my floppy drive, twice actually when going from
>runlevel 1 to runlevel 3, indeed a new entry for a floppy is not
>showing up. OTOH if I already have in /etc/fstab something like
>
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
>or
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
>
>then this is left alone. Or you mean that you want to see /media/floppy?
>
>
I'm having results similar to this also, removing that 'managed' option
seems to preserve the fstab entry and the /media/floppy mount point at
boot time. Jeff Spaleta filed a bug on this issue that I added comments to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135976
>My CD-RW and a USB floppy (I happen to have such beast on hands :-)
>
>
I'll have to try the USB floppy that goes with the laptop my employer
issued me some day -- that is, take the floppy and plug it into my
desktop machine and see what happens.
>get a different treatment. This shows up automagically in fstab
>
>/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder iso9660,udf exec,pamconsole,noauto,ro,managed 0 0
>
>
My DVD-RW drive always shows up with those options also.
>for the first one and this
>
>/dev/sdb /media/floppy auto exec,pamconsole,noauto,managed 0 0
>
>appears or disappears when that other thingy is plugged/unplugged.
>Booting with a USB floppy connected is also good enough. I would
>rather like to know how to replace this "exec" by "noexec,nodev" -
>for example - but maybe one day this black magic will be also
>revealed. :-) 'man fstab-sync' looks like a good place to start
>even if this document has obvious bugs.
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136026
>
>Maybe something is just missing from configuration files but
>that xml is only so-so readable.
>
>
I agree.
Bob
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