Order of identifying filesystems for auto
I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thought the sensible move would be to specify auto as the filesystem in /etc/fstab, and let it pick out what to use. Well, it works fine for Minix and MacOS, and FAT filesystems, but when it comes to vfat, well, it sees FAT first, and goes with it to the exclusion of its nominally more powerful counterpart. Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should just try it again? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Order of identifying filesystems for auto
This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thought the sensible move would be to specify auto as the filesystem in /etc/fstab, and let it pick out what to use. Well, it works fine for Minix and MacOS, and FAT filesystems, but when it comes to vfat, well, it sees FAT first, and goes with it to the exclusion of its nominally more powerful counterpart. Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should just try it again? Try `cat /proc/filesystems` - that's the order that your kernel searches for any mount with auto in the filesystem type field. This can be overridden by creating a file /etc/filesystems with the order you want. cp /proc/filesystems /etc/filesystems ; $EDITOR /etc/filesystems HTH, -- -- | Stephen Gran | Absence diminishes mediocre passions| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and increases great ones, as the wind | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | blows out candles and fans fires. -- | || La Rochefoucauld| -- msg23228/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Order of identifying filesystems for auto
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:12:20PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should just try it again? See mount(8). You can create /etc/filesystems to change the probe order. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Order of identifying filesystems for auto
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 15:48, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Mark L. Kahnt said: I haven't touched this the past couple of kernels, so it may have changed, but another thread reminded me of this problem. I deal with diskettees at times from a variety of operating systems, including MacOS, OS/2, and vfat. As such, I'd thought the sensible move would be to specify auto as the filesystem in /etc/fstab, and let it pick out what to use. Well, it works fine for Minix and MacOS, and FAT filesystems, but when it comes to vfat, well, it sees FAT first, and goes with it to the exclusion of its nominally more powerful counterpart. Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should just try it again? Try `cat /proc/filesystems` - that's the order that your kernel searches for any mount with auto in the filesystem type field. This can be overridden by creating a file /etc/filesystems with the order you want. cp /proc/filesystems /etc/filesystems ; $EDITOR /etc/filesystems HTH, Helps perfectly - Thanx Now if only I could rewrite the hpfs support to read long file names from ea data. sf files on FAT diskettes, in addition to the 100+ other non-trivial programming projects I'd like to undertake ;) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
