on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:30:53PM +0000, Stephen Patterson (s.patterson@freeuk.com) wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:10:04 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > When I try to mount a floppy with file system marked as auto in fstab
> > it does recognize vfat file system (disks from windows), I have to
> > specify vfat explicitly. Any way around that?
>
> You can create /etc/filesystems, a text file with 1 filesystem per
> line. This indicates which order to attempt different filesystems for
> devices with fs-type auto.
...and if you don't, you get autodetection in the order specified in
/proc/filesystems. In which msdos (8.3) precedes vfat (long filename
support).
Peace.
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