Mounting Floppies With ext2 fs

[Tzar Kastik]

Hi. I am using Red Hat 9 and am having problems with mounting floppies with the ext2 fs. I can format disks and they pass the verification, but when i mount them i get the error

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
or too many mounted file systems"

DOS formatted floppies mount fine.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

[mdwatts]

How are you mounting these ext2 formatted floppies? Using

mount /mnt/<mountpoint>

and relying on the floppy entry in /etc/fstab to fill in the rest or are you using the full mount command such as

mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/<mountpoint>

[Tzar Kastik]

(knew there was something i forgot to mention)

im using "mount /mnt/floppy"

fstab contains:

"
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

"

I tried using the full command "mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" and got the same error message.

[Tzar Kastik]

oh, im formatting the disks with the Floppy Formatter tool and not the command line. (In case it helps)

[homey]

Redhat 9 already puts makes the directory /mnt/floppy otherwise you would need to make one like that or similar with the command: mkdir /mnt/floppy
Then you would mount it with the command:
mount /dev/fd0 -t ext2 /mnt/floppy