On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jason Stubbs uttered the following immortal words, > Yeah, Linux is quite good like that. Similar to the way most basic *nix > programs don't care about a file's extension, mount checks the signature of > the file system from the first sector (I believe) instead of blindly > believing (or even checking) what it's labelled as.
Yes, thats why usually you can mount a filesystem without even specifying the type, linux automatically can guess the correct one. Ie -t auto usually works for many fs's. Grendel -- Grendels annoyance filter is so advanced it puts people to the killfile even before they have posted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
