I would like to be able to access my floppy drive, but PCLOS 2010.10, (with updates up til my Synaptic broke), doesn't seem to be able to mount it, and I can't read the encoded fstab to modify it. Everything seems to be a UUID, and a drive doesn't have a UUID. I would like to have any floppy disk automount and auto umount. Help, please. --doug
Floppies do not auto mount, nor do they auto umount. Here is the
/etc/fstab line for a floppy. You need to edit
/etc/fstab as
root in order to save the changes.
[root@fatman ~]# cat /etc/fstab |grep floppy/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
You also need to create the
mount point directory, as
root, before you can actually mount a floppy.
[root@fatman ~]# mkdir -p /mnt/floppy <Enter>
Copy the following into your text editor, press the
Enter key to start a new line, then
Save As /home/<you>/Desktop/Floppy.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Desktop Action Format]
Exec=kfloppy %v
Name=Format
[Desktop Entry]
Actions=Format;
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=mount /dev/fd0; dolphin /mnt/floppy
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=media-floppy
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=Floppy
Name=Floppy
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=FSDevice
Dev=/dev/fd0
UnmountIcon=media-floppy
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=none
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That will place an icon on your desktop that will allow you to mount or unmount the floppy.
Left clicking the icon will
mount the floppy, and
open Dolphin to the correct
mount point directory. A
right click on the icon will give a menu entry to
unmount the floppy.
