Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:46:38AM -0600, CW Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I think the order depends on your setup. msdos might always precede vfat
> if both compiled in kernel, but if they are modules the order depends on
> the order they are loaded (and if you only load vfat, msdos won't be in
> /proc/filesystems).
My problem apparently is that they are both modules and not loaded at
all (I depend on auto loading them) so they don't appear in
/proc/filesystems. The /etc/filesystems option should solve that
(didn't have the time to try yet).
>
> >
> > Peace.
> Indeed.
>
>
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