On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Fabrizio Parrella wrote: > I mount a msdos floppy disk with: > > mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > and everything works fine.. > when I tried to umount, I got this: > > umount: unmount of /mnt/floppy failed: Resourde temporary unavailable > # fd0: hard error cmd=write fsbn 19 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_protect> ST2 0 > cyl 0 hd 1 sec 2 It's not writable, so you need to mount it with option ro. msdosfs used to have the nice property of not scribbling on disks unless there is a write() or chmod() etc. on the disk, but it now always writes to the FAT for non-ro mounts to clear the clean flag. > PLUS, if I try to mount the floppy disk by an user and not as root, I get thie > message: > > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted Various things prevent user mounts (see another reply), and non-clean disks should now prevent read-write mounting. I'm not sure if this works yet. BruceReceived on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 11:45:10 UTC
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