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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 1997 09:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Gerard Giamberdine <gerard@dimensional.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ordinary user mounting floppy question/problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970610095807.10031C-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <339CEA78.41C67EA6@dimensional.com>

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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Gerard Giamberdine wrote:
> Can a ordinary user on a FBSD 2.2.2 system mount a 1.44M floppy drive.
> (I read somewhere that it's not allowed?). If it can be done, I'm sure
> running out of idea why as root I can, but not as anybody else. All
> attempts return:
> 
>   mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt		(or mount -t msdos ...)

Make sure that /dev/fd0* is world read/writeable.  Then use
a mount point that the user has permissions on.  Like
mount /dev/fd0 /home/dan/mnt

Dan
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