Bug#417165: nautilus: error writing to floppy

[Sven Arvidsson]

tags 417165 +unreproducible
thanks

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 13:06 -0500, The Elmers wrote:
> When I click on the Nautilus computer icon and mount and open the floppy
> device,
> the Nautilus window opens and I can see the files on the floppy.  When I
> try to copy to the floppy,
> I get the following error:
> Error while copying to "/media/floppy"
> You do not have permissions to write to
> this folder.
> 
> I am in the floppy group.  The /etc/fstab entry is as follows:
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy   auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> I can write to the floppy when I mount as root like this
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> cp file /media/floppy
> 
> I can also write to the floppy from my own user ID when I use pmount
> like this:
> pmount /dev/fd0 floppy
> cp file /media/floppy
> 
> my user ID is in the plugdev group

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this. 

Can you write to the floppy if you remove the line from fstab and try to
access the floppy from Nautilus?

What are the permissions on /media/floppy before and after you mount the
floppy? You can use "ls -ld /etc/floppy" from a terminal. It would also
be helpful if you could paste the output of "mount" when you fail to
write to the floppy.

Also, do you know what filesystem is on the floppy?

I'm guessing this is more of a configuration issue than a bug, so you
might also try asking for help on one of the users mailing lists.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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