Was just poking through the manpage for mount, looking for something else, and thought this little section might be useful ?
Note that the auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try vfat before msdos) or if you use a kernel module autoloader. This is in the manpage under the -t commandline option.. I thought it was a bit scary how it cited the exact problem someone on the list was having :) Anyway, back to other fun stuff.. Regards, Gavin.