can't mount ext2fs

[Darin Perusich]

if you'd like for any user to be able to mount the floppy diskette then 
you have to tell the system that it's ok for anyone to mount it. to do 
this you'll need to backup /etc/fstab first, cp /etc/fstab 
/etc/fstab.old. edit /etc/fstab and look for the line:

** NOTE ** this file is extremely important so be carefully ** NOTE **

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

change it to:

/dev/fd0 
/mnt/floppy 
auto 
noauto,user 
0 0	
						^
						|-- change this.

after making this change anyone will be able to mount any type of floppy.

the lost+found directory is a system directory that gets created when 
you write a new filesystem to a partition, slice, floppy. the lost+found 
doesn't exist on all filesystems but it does on most, reiserfs and msdos 
are 2 example of filesystems that do not create the lost+found 
directory. it is used when the filesystem is checked by fsck to store 
unlinked files, see the mklost+found man page.

S. Lawton wrote:
> 
> On 9 Jun 2002, at 17:29, Charles Rishel wrote:
> 
> 
>>Did you try specifying the filesystem type?
>>
>>mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mount/floppy
>>
>>Chaz®
>>
>>
> 
> I tried it, told me that only root could issue that command. 
> [first was a no such directory error- on my box it's /mnt/floppy] 
> 
> opened a root console and tried it - it mounted fine, but once 
> mounted there was already a lost+found  directory there [?normal ?].
> I could then write and read as a normal user, but had to umount as 
> root. Even full of data it wouln't mount from the desktop. 
> 
> I have two floppy drives, would it be possible to have one for DOS 
> disks and one for linux ? 
> 
> On the device tab of properties for the desktop icon, it lists file 
> system: auto. 
> There is no pull down list of any other options. Could I change this 
> parameter to something else ? If so, to what ? 
> 
> It's going to be hard to leave Windows if I can't put a file from linux 
> onto floppy in its native file format. 
> 
> 
>>>>I tried formatting disks with both Kfloppy and Gnome Floppy as
>>>>ext2fs, but then when I try to mount, the error message says wrong
>>>>fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
>>>>mountedfile systems.
>>>>If I take that disk to Windows and run analyze disk from the
>>>>Maxidisk program, it recognizes it as a non-DOS disk and reports
>>>>no directories, no files [as opposed to DOS disk, MAC disk or
>>>>unformatted disk].
>>>>If I reformat to DOS, they mount fine. Why ??
>>>
> 
> Scott 
> Registered Linux User 261118 
> 


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com