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SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#16
I found the answer by booting antiX-13 live and comparing fstab to antiX-13.1 fstab.

The confusion stems from the placement of entries in fstab. The original post was made to report the symtoms after applying outstanding updates, (which affected fstab) however the release was still 13.0. From the opening post can be seen that fstab lists the original entries created by the live installer towards the foot of the file. I took these to be the entries created by the update rather than the live installer.

To follow the advice
anticapitalsta wrote:Remove the unwanted entries in /etc/fstab and also remove the /etc/fstab.hotplug file. Reboot and then remove unwanted folders in /media
the entries towards the foot of fstab were commented out - which also excluded the reference to the floppy drive. This appears not to be referenced and retained by the update in a similar manner to the hard disk partitions and the optical drives.

The entry for the floppy drive has been manually re-added and the mountpoint /media/fd0 is again operational via ROX-Filer. As the target audience for antiX is likely to include systems with floppy drives might this be also experienced other users?

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cat /etc/fstab
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
UUID=86bab6c0-738d-4a7f-8461-cb7c10053adf / auto defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=2f7d67c8-a67d-4468-9c41-7f97dc1dde41 /home auto defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto noauto,exec,users,rw 0 0