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fstab - duplicating floppy entry


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Couldn't find a really appropriate place to post this.
I added a 500GB USB external disk yesterday, which caused
me to "mess" with /etc/fstab. I found a huge number
of duplicate entries for the floppy drive. I removed
them. This is what is looks like now (after 2 reboots)

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda7 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs noauto,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/fat vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,exec,rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /mnt/root1 auto noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda9 /mnt/root2 auto noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda10 /user ext2 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sdf1 /big ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0

Notice 1) there are now 2 floppies. 2) the "# Dynamic..."
line has vanished.

When the system boots, I also see this new message
"[07179584.612000] sdf: assuming disk cache write through"
(appears twice) which I'm assuming is about the new disk.

Any advice please.
Mepis 6.0 from about July last year (and Hey I've been here
almost a whole year now [ started on 3.xx ] )

Try adding the dynamic line

Try adding the dynamic line back in and reboot. Perhaps you accidentally removed it when you editted the file.

Wayne

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda7 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs noauto,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/fat vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,exec,rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /mnt/root1 auto noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda9 /mnt/root2 auto noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sda10 /user ext2 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sdf1 /big ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0

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