Someone erased my FD0

[mpayette]

I am pretty new to Linux and I leave my system running overnight.

Last night someone decided to erase FD0 so that when I try to mount /mnt/floppy I get a nasty message. I there a way to recreate this???

I am running RH7, with all the patches.

TIA

[Lend273]

You need to add a line in your /etc/fstab
file, something like:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0

Look up the man page for /etc/fstab and you'll find the proper syntax to remount your floppy.

Len

[bdg1983]

I believe you need to recreate the device fd0. makedev ?

Try the man page 'man makedev'. May have an example for fd0.

[bdg1983]

Of course that's if the someone deleted /dev/fd0 and not something else.

Is that it or is it the mount directory for floppy or the entry in /etc/fstab that was deleted?

[DMR]

Have you looked in /dev to see whether or not you have an entry for fd0?

If /dev/fd0 did indeed get hosed, here's a thread from the archives with a couple of ways to restore it: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=016382. If you have the MAKEDEV script installed (mine's in /dev), "MAKEDEV fd0" should recreate the device entry for you.

If, as mdwatts suggests, the mount point got deleted, you'll have to recreate it by doing mkdir /mnt/floppy (assuming /mnt/floppy is the mount point you want to create).

[MBMarduk]

Sorry couldn't resist. :D

[bdg1983]

That helped me to find it. Didn't even have to use 'search'.