When I am a regular user, the floppy icon will not mount a floppy disk. I get the message that only root can do that. My user is a member of the floppy group. How do I get the users in the floppy group to be able to mount the floppy?

Floppy mounting / unmounting works fine via the desktop icon if I am root.

Does this help?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... er-167200/

Sorry, I don't have any PCs with a floppy, so I can't actually help you more.

Yes it helped.

I changed fstab from:
dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

to:

dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=00 0 0

I think this is "fixed".

this link really cleared it up for me:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

From the mount man page:

So I don't think it's a security risk. In any case if someone has physical access to your PC, mounting a floppy should be the least of your concerns.

You could change it to 'user', 'users' means user A can umount a floppy mounted by user B.

Of course I think it's rather an improbable situation, but you never know .

People still use floppy? *scnr*

I was thinking the same thing

I still use paper as well.

My computers are very old and they like floppy disks.

BTW the users in the fstab is not a user name or group, it just means not root which is the default.
I discovered that after I did some research on fstab.

I am not sure what the utility of the floppy group is anymore since nobody seems to care.

Thanks for everybodys help.

It means users can mount/umount devices. It has nothing to do with usernames or groups. You can try to drop in a username in fstab but it won't eat it.

The group is mostly legacy stuff I think. Udev and HAL have made most groups obsolete, all removable devices are thrown in /media nowadays.

Of course a different group means you can have users X and Y acces e.g. optical units but not the floppies, and vice versa. I don't think it's practical in a small home environment, but I can imagine it being useful on larger deployments.