Can't mount floppy anymore

[sdunn]

I ran this command the other day<mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt> trying to mount my win98 fat 32 drive. However since doing this I can no longer access my floppy drive. It says block does not exist.

Does anyone have any thoughts

[7DeadlySins]

i dont suppose you're trying to mount your floppy to /mnt? in which case you'll prolly want to umount hda1 which is currently mounted at /mnt. just a suggestion.. i've never tried to mount two devices to the same mount point before, so that could be your problem.

7DS

[Craig McPherson]

I see what your problem is.

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt

You did something a little bit unusual. You generally don't use /mnt itself as a mount point -- rather, you use subdirectories of /mnt as your mountpoints -- ie. /mnt/floppy, /mnt/win, /mnt/whatever.

Your floppy was probably set up to mount to /mnt/floppy. When you mounted a Windows filesystem directly onto /mnt, that caused /mnt/floppy to effectively vanish, preventing your floppy drive from being mounted.

Umount your Windows drive, make a directory called /mnt/win or something like that, and mount it again there.

[sdunn]

Ok I will try. Thanks for the fast replies!!!!

[sdunn]

I will let you know as soon as it works!!

[m3rlin]

I do belive that the reason that you can't mount your floppy disk is because you have mounted you hdd win98 particion on the /mnt dir, and it's normal that when you try to mount your floppy disk he says that it's busy ou can't mount, because you are trying to mount another device in the same dir. A solution to your problem is: as root go to dir /mnt and the mkdir windows, then mount your windows particion like this mount -tvfat /dev/your device /mnt/windows
and your floopy like mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
you will see that it is more organized and better.
Greatings :)

[sdunn]

It worked great tahnks for the help!!!