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Re: woody: mount floppy with desktop icon = no long filenames



On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:19:39PM +0100, Hendrik Naumann wrote:
> > When I mount a floppy using the KDE desktop icon I get filenames
> > that are abreviated and ugly versions of what is actually on the
> > floppy, although I specified vfat as the filesystem.
> > I use woody CDs version 3.0.13 (KDE version is 2.1).
> If you are exclusively using vfat (Windowsformat) floppies you can 
> change auto to vfat. Thats what I did, although I don't think it is 
> the best solution.
 
Better solution is to keep the auto parameter in fstab and change the
order of auto probed filesystems.

Create /etc/filesystems and put something like:

vfat
hfs
minix
reiserfs

in there. man mount for more information.


Björn



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