Using fstab to mount usb floppy drive

[F W Adams]

I'm having getting this to work. I wanted to use a UUID and also to mount it at a user level.

Here is my current fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'sudo blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-system / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=b2114f59-8176-4077-b2dd-e1713e3e3af5 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-home /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home/felix/fast.ne was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=8a14e4fb-7dc9-456c-b27d-cc179ca19504 /home/felix/fast.ne ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-swap none swap sw 0 0
#UUID=2A87-6CE1 /home/felix/floppy vfat user,noauto,noatime,flush 0 0

You will see that fstab is not being used for the usb floppy at the start of this experiment. Here is my terminal output, you can see that without using fstab everything is working fine but the when I altered the fstab, I just took out the last "#" in the file at the start of the last line, it no longer worked when it had actually to access fstab.


alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="b2114f59-8176-4077-b2dd-e1713e3e3af5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="8a14e4fb-7dc9-456c-b27d-cc179ca19504" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: UUID="348f966a-fe61-4905-b9d7-e8ed8ff6d04e" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt: UUID="HqoYLs-lW0x-hdBD-XGdw-wDL1-lHar-1nDuGz" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdb: UUID="8c95d6e8-66ca-4bef-8fb8-97a9c0ac73b3" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-swap: UUID="a157f461-3748-4f88-93ec-24d37cbe3f93" TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-system: UUID="53a99feb-b6ff-4b99-a1ca-8a78e678ad14" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/LVM.1-home: UUID="3276f94b-d27b-4d45-bb4a-d82652eb88ea" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="2A87-6CE1" TYPE="vfat"
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ mount /dev/sdc floppy
mount: only root can do that
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
AUTOEXEC.BAT DISPLAY.SYS EGA.CPI KEYBOARD.SYS KEYBRD4.SYS TIMETEST.EXE
COMMAND.COM EGA2.CPI IO.SYS KEYBRD2.SYS MODE.COM
CONFIG.SYS EGA3.CPI KEYB.COM KEYBRD3.SYS MSDOS.SYS
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo umount floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
AUTOEXEC.BAT DISPLAY.SYS EGA.CPI KEYBOARD.SYS KEYBRD4.SYS TIMETEST.EXE
COMMAND.COM EGA2.CPI IO.SYS KEYBRD2.SYS MODE.COM
CONFIG.SYS EGA3.CPI KEYB.COM KEYBRD3.SYS MSDOS.SYS
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo umount floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
AUTOEXEC.BAT DISPLAY.SYS EGA.CPI KEYBOARD.SYS KEYBRD4.SYS TIMETEST.EXE
COMMAND.COM EGA2.CPI IO.SYS KEYBRD2.SYS MODE.COM
CONFIG.SYS EGA3.CPI KEYB.COM KEYBRD3.SYS MSDOS.SYS
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo umount floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo mount floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ ls floppy
alex@ubuntu6:~$ sudo umount floppy
umount: floppy: not mounted


The idea is to eventually use "mount" with fstab rather than "mount" but I continued to use "sudo mount" for the sake of clarity.