[Gllug] linux and floppy disks

Richard Clamp richardc at unixbeard.net
Sun Jul 1 21:31:37 UTC 2001


On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:25:27PM -0400, bredroll wrote:
> I want to allow the disk to appear as mounted. will mtools allow this? ie
> i want people to use /mnt/floppy as a normal drive.

No, for that you'll probably want to look at the automounter and
autofs.  There's a seemingly useful guide at
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue24/nielsen.html but I've not played
with the automounter myself.

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Richard Clamp <richardc at unixbeard.net>

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