Re: Floppydrive won't work

[Jim Hall <volunteer@revealed.net>]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > I asked about a similar situation on a Sarge install some time ago.
> > Good, specific responses. It turns out that the mount command checks a
> > file: '/etc/filesystems' (if it exists). Sarge apparently doesn't create
> > it. That's why mount is asking you to specify a filesystem. I created
> > the file with these entries:
> > vfat
> > msdos
> > ext3
> > ext2
>
>
> That has to be bug.  Programs should retrieve supported filesystems
> from /proc/filesystems.  On my system, here is what I have:
> $ cat /proc/filesystems
> nodev   sysfs
> nodev   rootfs
> nodev   bdev
> nodev   proc
> nodev   sockfs
> nodev   usbfs
> nodev   usbdevfs
> nodev   futexfs
> nodev   tmpfs
> nodev   pipefs
> nodev   eventpollfs
> nodev   devpts
>         ext3
>         ext2
> nodev   ramfs
>         msdos
>         vfat
>         iso9660
> nodev   devfs
> nodev   autofs
>         udf
>         xfs
> nodev   binfmt_misc
> nodev   smbfs
> nodev   rpc_pipefs
> nodev   nfs
> nodev   nfs4
>
> The user or admin should not have to tell applications what kind of
> filesystems the kernel supports, when the kernel will deliver the
> information upon request.
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sanchez
> http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr


Sorry for the delay. You're probably correct about this being a bug, 
there are still so many (sigh). I got the following output.

Jacob:~# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   shm
nodev   pipefs
        ext2
        cramfs
nodev   ramfs
nodev   devfs
nodev   devpts
        ext3
nodev   usbdevfs
nodev   usbfs
Jacob:~#


Jim