Re: Mount behaving oddly under sarge
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:20:37AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2005-05-05, Roberto C. Sanchez penned:
> >
> > Yes. The more correct solution is make sure that the vfat, fat and msdos
> > (since floppies are actually msdos, not vfat) modules are loaded into your
> > kernel on boot (this can be done by adding them as lines into /etc/modules).
> > Thing is, if the kernel has no support for a FS, the auto option is pretty
> > well useless.
> >
> > -Roberto
>
> Wait -- auto only works if the module has already been loaded? It
> doesn't work if the module is available (but not loaded)?
>
> I hadn't realized that, but it could explain a number of weirdnesses
> I've had with auto. Annoying, though.
>
> What about if you put the type in /etc/filesystems, but don't have the
> module loaded?
Yes this will load the module... I've used it for some time.
I posted a longer reply above... not seeing this thread got broken from
the main one in my mutt reader.
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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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