[newbie] Writing to floppy disc

[newbie@vlug.org]

> I can change permissions for "floppy device" but not "floppy". I can
> unmount both though. The distreibution I'm using is Mandrake 9.2.
>
> If permissions for devices can be changed like those for files, I missed
> something.

There is two places you can change the permission.

1. the device entry
2. the mount point

Both take effect. This allows you to have different mount points for a device
with different rights.

For a floopy the device entry is probably

/dev/floppy

and the mountpoint could be

/floppy
or
/mnt/floppy
or whatever other directory you set up

This applies to floppies but importantly also to all other devices. And pretty
much everything in linux is a device. E.g. Camcorder on Firewire port, PDA or
USB memory card reader on USB port and so on..

manfred