How to mount a dos floppy ?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>> How do I mount an old dos floppy without making additions to fstab?
>> I assume there is a proper way to do this since an icon comes up on
>> the desktop when I plug the disk in to the drive but it can't deal
>> with the file system apparently and refuses to mount.  I don't know
>> the magic incantation for the command line.
>>
>> I have a few disks I need to extract text [.doc] files from.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>
> mount /dev/fd0 -t vfat /media   Works but it dumps all the files in /media.
> 
> So I created /media/floppy/  That works, is it the "usual/correct" way?
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
> 
Using /media/floppy works. What I normally do is create directories
under /mnt that I use for manual mount points. This makes it easy to
keep track of manual and automatic mounts. But this is just a
personal preference that goes back to when the /mnt tree was used
for removable media mounting.

Mikkel
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