On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 15:48, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: > > I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have > > changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with > > diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including > > MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thought the sensible move would be > > to specify "auto" as the filesystem in /etc/fstab, and let it pick out > > what to use. Well, it works fine for Minix and MacOS, and FAT > > filesystems, but when it comes to vfat, well, it sees FAT first, and > > goes with it to the exclusion of its nominally more powerful > > counterpart. > > > > Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look > > that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually > > vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should > > just try it again? > > Try `cat /proc/filesystems` - that's the order that your kernel searches > for any mount with auto in the filesystem type field. This can be > overridden by creating a file /etc/filesystems with the order you want. > > cp /proc/filesystems /etc/filesystems ; $EDITOR /etc/filesystems > > HTH, Helps perfectly - Thanx Now if only I could rewrite the hpfs support to read long file names from "ea data. sf" files on FAT diskettes, in addition to the 100+ other non-trivial programming projects I'd like to undertake ;) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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