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Old 11-14-2001
Question Floppy mounting
How can i mount a floppy drive manually ?
( when i run #volcheck and then run #df -lk , my floppy hasn't been mounted ,however my vold daemon is up )

under /dev there is some links related to my floppy (fd0 ,...)but actually which one of them should be used?

Rgrds
nikkSmilie
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Old 11-14-2001
If you're on Solaris, try:

volcheck /dev/diskette

Smilie
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Old 11-14-2001
look in /etc/vfstab (to see if your floppy is listed in there)

the command will probably look something like this

mount -t (fstype) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

man mount

Shimb0
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