On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > On Friday 28 November 2003 02:36, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Don't trust any app ;). Change 'auto' to 'vfat' in fstab and
> > > give it a try.
> >
> >
> > Thanks - that did it .
>
> You have no idea what a relief this is for me :-)
> BTW, it's weird that msdos is ahead of vfat when 'auto'. Does anyone
> have any idea why is this? vfat exists for many years, and I don't
> think it's considered less stable than msdos. And now we see it's
> even better in some cases.
Quoting man mount:
The type iso9660 is the default. If no -t option
is given, or if the auto type is specified, the
superblock is probed for the filesystem type (adfs,
bfs, cramfs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660,
jfs, minix, ntfs, qnx4, reiserfs, romfs, ufs, vxfs,
xfs, xiafs are supported). If this probe fails,
mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems. All
of the filesystem types listed there will be tried,
except for those that are labeled "nodev" (e.g.,
devpts, proc and nfs).
Note that the auto type may be useful for user-
mounted floppies. Creating a file /etc/filesystems
can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to
try vfat before msdos) or if you use a kernel mod-
ule autoloader. Warning: the probing uses a
heuristic (the presence of appropriate `magic'),
and could recognize the wrong filesystem type.
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