Dustin Puryear wrote:

> At 05:45 PM 6/25/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> I really hate to say RTFM, but the command MAN mount
>> will give you the missing peice of the puzzle for your
>> system.  You have to tell the OS what sort of file
>> system is on the HDD.  Only fair bro, it can't guess.
>

Actually mount does try to determine the file system type.  I can often 
mount file systems that are not in fstab or anything else just by saying 
"mount device mountpoint".

Shannon



>
> He said in the email that he did specify the filesystem type.
>
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