Re: permission success


Subject: Re: permission success
From: John Schmidt (jas@netbrick.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 17:24:52 MST


On Wednesday 13 March 2002 04:57 pm, you wrote:
> I left two zeros out at the end column of fstb. That must have been what
> was preventing. I have read/write access now as user.
>
> The hard drive partition and the floppy don't mount automatically as
> expected, but do mount readily by right-clicking the desktop icon and
> selecting "mount." Good enough for me.
>

There is probably a noauto in the /dev/fd0 which means that the floppy won't
mount until explicitly told to by the user (using the mount command).
Removing that should mount it automatically, however, I am not sure off hand
what would happen if there was no disk in the drive (does it fail gracefully
or not???).

look up eject (man eject).

eject /dev/fd0 might do the trick for the ejection problem.

John



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