topic Re: Mount floppy drive in Operating System - Linux

Mount floppy drive

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:05:26 GMT

I am trying to mount the floppy dive. I enter:

mount /dev/fd0 /temp
system responds to specify filesystem type

I tried
mount -t tmpfs /dev/fd0 /temp
it mounts but I dont see any data on the floppy

What filesystem type should I use so I can see the floppy data?

Re: Mount floppy drive

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:12:26 GMT

Generally it should be vfat
however you're no suppose to explicitely specify the file system in such cases.RedHat versions of linux can mount it without the file system argument.

Maybe you have a problem with your floppy-try another one.

Re: Mount floppy drive

Paul Cross_1 — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:12:33 GMT

If you are using a DOS/windows formatted floppy, just use the mtools commands.

examples:
#mdir a:
#mcopy /var/tmp/file a:

There is no need to mount the disk.

Re: Mount floppy drive

Nobody's Hero — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:23:17 GMT

floppy and drive are good. running rh9. i've tried every fstype, cant get it to mount. keeps saying wrong fstype. I'll try the mcopy feature.

Re: Mount floppy drive

Fred Ruffet — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:49:50 GMT

Problem may be that you kernel has not been compiled with support for this FS...

When mounting your floopy into a windows box, what is reported as FS type ?

is this file system appears in result of
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs
(this command displays kernel modules for FS)

FS that have support build in kernel can be seen like this :
more /proc/filesystems

Other point : floppies are generally vfat or msdos.

Regards,

Fred

Re: Mount floppy drive

Sergejs Svitnevs — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:52:00 GMT

if your floppy was originally formatted on a Windows computer, try this command:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /temp

Regards,
Sergejs

Re: Mount floppy drive

Claudio Cilloni — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:04:22 GMT

You can try to guess what kind of filesystem there's on your floppy:

# file -s /dev/fd0

maybe this helps...

Ciao
Claudio

Re: Mount floppy drive

Thomas Bianco — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:52:16 GMT

if i rememer correctly, default redhat kernels don't have Vfat complied in, or loaded. try instmod vfat then mount.

could be way off, it's been since 7 something since i used redhat.

Re: Mount floppy drive

David Asgeirsson — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:16:47 GMT

You can also use the following:

mount /mnt/floppy
ls /mnt/floppy ...

on most linux boxes I have seen.