Bob Goodwin wrote: > Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >> How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab? >> I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on >> the desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal >> with the file system apparently and refuses to mount. I don't know >> the magic incantation for the command line. >> >> I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from. >> >> Bob Goodwin >> > mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media Works but it dumps all the files in /media. > > So I created /media/floppy/ That works, is it the "usual/correct" way? > > Bob Goodwin > > Using /media/floppy works. What I normally do is create directories under /mnt that I use for manual mount points. This makes it easy to keep track of manual and automatic mounts. But this is just a personal preference that goes back to when the /mnt tree was used for removable media mounting. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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