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On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:27 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > <karina.popkova at verizon.net> writes: > > 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. You can mount as a non-root user as long as there is an /etc/fstab entry for the device with "user" as an option. I would check for a floppy entry in /etc/fstab. If the path is mounting to is different, then you may successfully mount to the specified mountpoint. One note though: > > mount -t /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mke2fs /dev/fd0 1440 Running mke2fs on a mounted filesystem isn't exactly recommended. You should mke2fs, and THEN mount. Greg Boyce
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