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Re: mount_partition() and filesystem types



On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:35:39PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Oct 17, 2001 at 04:52:18PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote:
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > dbootstrap's mount_partition() goes to a lot of trouble to work out what
> > to pass to mount(1) on the -t option.  Busybox's mount seems to support
> > "-t auto".  Why not just let mount do the work?
> 
> Good point.  I didn't used to support that but I think I do a 
> pretty good job of it now...

until the kernel adds another nodev filesystem type and your mount
starts happily mounting it instead of a real filesystem.

thats why i eliminated ALL cases of mount -t auto from dbootstrap.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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