Randy McMurchy wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 01/02/06 01:13 CST:<!-- Add iocharset and codepage to device types that may need them and for which the filesystem type cannot be known in advance. WARNING: this breaks mounting ext2-formatted floppies, but it is impossible to have correct flags both for media that doesn't need iocharset and for media that does.Here is where I am confused. Why is it impossible? We can determine the media and we can determine the filesystem type, right? And since we can determine exactly what we are dealing with, we should be able to define rules to fit whatever it is that is discovered? At least that's the way I see it. What am I missing?
You are missing the fact that HAL writes the fstab line for a floppy before it has a chance to know the actual filesystem, because there is no floppy in the drive. And mount options good for vfat floppies (i.e., iocharset=...) are bad for ext2 floppies (they don't need iocharset and treat it as a bad mount option).
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