mount: block device is write-protected

Mark Sargent powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Tue Nov 9 18:36:38 UTC 2004


/dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy   auto   noauto,owner,kudzu  0 0

cheers.

Mark Sargent

-----Original Message-----
From: François Patte [mailto:Francois.Patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr]
Sent: 2004?11?9? 16:16
To: powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: mount: block device is write-protected


Selon Mark Sargent <powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp>:

> IBM R30
> External Floppy
> Fedora Core 2
> Newbie
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> mount: block device is write-protected, mounting read-only

What is the entry for /dev/fd0 in the /etc/fstab file?

> mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock

Try another floppy.....

--
François Patte

Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte




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