On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:01:19 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 08:50:18 Mick wrote: > > > Can't mount my camera. This is what Konqueror comes up with: > > > > Ahem. You have a camera with an ext3 filesystem on it? > > > > What kind of super camera do you have that understands ext3? Those things > > almost universally have vfat. > > Yes, it is vfat - I couldn't explain the ext3 thing either (see below). > > > I'd say you have a b0rked fstab. Udev has nothing to do with it as udev > > does not understand filesystems either - mount undertsands filesystems. > > Spot on! I was well surprised to see that my fstab had an ext3 fs > specified. Must have been from me experimenting with a NSLU2 device and its > fs - not sure. > > Thanks for your help!
You shouldn't be thanking me quite so effusively. You have no idea how many times I've made the same mistake :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
