Use of Root (su)

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

<karina.popkova at verizon.net> writes:

> mount -t /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 
> mke2fs /dev/fd0 1440
>
> I get an error that says 
> you must be root.
>
> I do not have root priviledges
> on the machine thus can not accomplish what I need to do.
>
> Is the need to go to root, typical,
> to mount a filesystem, or to make 
> a ext2fs ???

It's typical that you cannot "mount" without root access.  But you
should have the access to make the filesystem on /dev/fd0 (actually
you should probably use /dev/fd0H1440) without being root.  At least
on my RH system (Actually linux-athena 9.3) /dev/fd0 is owned by me.

-derek
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