$ mount /floppy
$
The floppy can (and needs to, of course) be unmounted with the corresponding umount command.
If you want to provide access to several types of floppies, you need to give several mount points. The settings can be different for each mount point. For example, to give access to both MS-DOS and ext2 floppies, you could have the following to lines in /etc/fstab :
/dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy msdos user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/ext2floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0
The alternative is to just add one line similar to the following:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
The "auto" option in the filesystem type column allows the mount command to query the filesystem and try to determine what type it is itself. This option won't work on all filesystem types, but works fine on the more common ones.
For MS-DOS filesystems (not just floppies), you probably want to restrict access to it by using the uid , gid , and umask filesystem options, described in detail on the mount manual page. If you aren't careful, mounting an MS-DOS filesystem gives everyone at least read access to the files in it, which is not a good idea.
