Only root can mount floppy drive in Hubble

[bjs]

Okay, I know the floppy drive is all but dead with the advent of removable usb storage and cheap cd/dvd burners, but they are included in the base system so you'd think one would be able to get them to work.

First let me start of with:

sysctl vfs.usermount=1 has been set (was set by default)
/dev/fd0 /media msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 has been added to /etc/fstab
perm /dev/fd0 0666 has been added to /etc/devfs.conf
user is in both the wheel & operator groups

However both dolphin and command line attempts as user to mount drive return:

mount_msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted.

Yet if I su to root I can mount the drive on the command line without a problem. I have also tried different mount points in /etc/fstab, ie: /mnt and creating /floppy without any luck.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Fatmice]

Well of course. /media is root write only directory.

Try this instead.

mkdir ~/floppy

mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 ~/floppy

[bjs]

Well, that sort of works. A user can mount a floppy from the command line but it doesn't work for dolphin. For me I can deal, however, the misses and son are not so command line savvy.

In 7.1 I was able to:

mkdir /floppy
chown root:operator /floppy
chmod 774 /floppy
cat perm /dev/fd0 0666 >> /etc/devfs.conf
cat /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /dev/fstab

Then in everyone's home directory:

ln -s /floppy

That was it, eveyone had access to the floppy drive with easy mounting and umount. No Problems!!

But something changed in either dolphin, hal, or PolicyKit that won't allow this kind of setup in 8.0. I really would love to find the proper way to set it up so it works the way it's supposed to.

Well of course. /media is root write only directory.

Btw, I just figured I'd try /media since I know that's where usb storage devices get mounted. I also tried /mnt and /floppy as well. I tried just about everything I could think of without any success. So I'm still open to suggestions....

[Fatmice]

What does your /etc/devfs.rules look like?

[bjs]

This is /etc/devfs.rules as installed. I have not made any changes here are I believe they are correct.

[devfsrules_common=7]
add path 'ad[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'acd[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'cd[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'pass[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'xpt[0-9]*'    mode 666 group operator
add path 'ugen[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'usbctl' mode 666 group operator
add path 'usb/*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'lpt[0-9]*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'ulpt[0-9]*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'unlpt[0-9]*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'fd[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'uscan[0-9]*' mode 666 group operator

Along with the correct entry in /etc/rc.conf:

devfs_system_ruleset="devfsrules_common"

[Fatmice]

Your rules are strange. Mine doesn't have the [0-9]

[quyen@pcbsd /etc]$ less devfs.rules
[devfsrules_common=7]
add path 'ad*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'acd*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'cd*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'pass*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'xpt*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'ugen*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'usb*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'lpt*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'ulpt*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'unlpt*' mode 666 group cups
add path 'fd*' mode 666 group operator
add path 'uscan*' mode 666 group operator

[bjs]

I have not modified them, that was from straight from the install.

[Fatmice]

Well...then this can only mean that the kernel was changed to allow only root mounting of floppy device.

The last bet is to look at disable hal and dbus and see if they are having an effect.

[bjs]

Okay after playing around with this a little bit more I have found that I put the following line in /etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 floppy msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0

and do mkdir ./Documents/floppy in each users home directory then it works, but it's still not exactly right but at least it's workable.

For whatever reason, whatever program is doing the mounting in kde for /dev/fd0 it is prefixing it with ~/Documents/. So if I use ~/floppy as suggested earlier in /etc/fstab that program is trying to mount the drive to ~/Documents/~/floppy.

Hope that made sense.