Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > 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
In addition - I could tell you to read the man page! :-) direct from the man page: 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, udf, 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). If /etc/filesystems ends in a line with a single * only, mount will read /proc/filesystems afterwards. 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 module autoloader. Warning: the probing uses a heuristic (the presence of appropriate magic), and could recognize the wrong filesys- tem type, possibly with catastrophic consequences. If your data is valuable, dont ask mount to guess. Even though it has the note that it can guess wrong.... it works 99% of the time. Shannon > > > >> >> He said in the email that he did specify the filesystem type. >> >> >> --- >> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Puryear Information Technology >> Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > -- Shannon Roddy __________________________________________________________________ Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy Calendar/Schedule See Home Page Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
