[LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM

David Imai dimai at email.com
Tue Oct 19 02:56:28 PDT 2004


Problem solved. I just changed the umask=002 in the /etc/auto.misc file to umask=000. I think that should be OK for a desktop machine in someone's home. Now I can read and write to floppy and read the CD from Kword without a mount command. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Imai" <dimai at email.com>
To: LUAU <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Subject: [LUAU] Automatic mounting of floppy and CDROM
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:08:44 -1000

> 
> I had given up on autofs, but since you said it should work I took another look and was able to get it working. The problem was in /etc/default/autofs. It contains a line that says AUTOFS_ENABLED=false. When I changed it to AUTOFS_ENABLED=true it worked. I don't know why it was set up like this. When you install something, shouldn't it be enabled by default? and if not, there should be clear instructions as to how to enable it. 
> 
> This is the auto.misc file:
> kernel		-ro					ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux
> boot		-fstype=ext2				:/dev/hda1
> removable	-fstype=ext2,sync,nodev,nosuid		:/dev/hdd
> cd		-fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid	:/dev/hdc
> floppy		-fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid,umask=002	:/dev/fd0
> 
> I'm trying to create symbolic links to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and /var/autofs/misc/cdrom. There are different files for the floppy drive, /floppy, /dev/floppy, /dev/fd0, /dev/fd. Where can I find more information about all these special files, and how KDE programs like Kword access the floppy and CD-ROM? Thanks for your help.
>

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