[PLUG] fstab entry

[Galen Seitz]

On 08/28/15 08:20, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> I needed to use the floppy disk on my ubuntu 14.04 system (why is a
> separate story).  I found that the default setup had the floppy owned by
> root. Even when I made myself a member of the group floppy, I did not have
> write access. It appeared as if the drive was not a member of the group
> floppy.
> 
> On searching for a solution I came across a change to /etc/fstab which
> solved the problem.  My question is, I would like to understand what these
> changes do and what the entries mean, and make sure that the changes do not
> have any flaws. Could the dropping of the utf8 option produce a problem?
> 
> Original entry (as provided by the installation):
> /dev/fd0   /media/floppy0  auto   rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8  0     0
> 
> New entry:
> /dev/fd0   /media/floppy   auto  rw,user,noauto,exec,gid=floppy,umask=007 0
>  0

Do you really need to mount the floppy?  For occasional use, it's often
easier to use mtools.

<http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/>
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/mtools>


galen
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