-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > In my /etc/fstab, I added the following line: > > /dev/SigmaTel /mnt/SigmaTel auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0 > > The "mount" manpage says: > [snip] > > Because of that, I set my /etc/filesystems to contain *only* the > following line: vfat > > Now I mounted "/dev/SigmaTel". I expected, that the "vfat" filesystemtype > be used, but: > > [08:29:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ LC_ALL=C mount -v /dev/SigmaTel mount: you > didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/SigmaTel I will try type msdos > /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/SigmaTel type msdos > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > > Why's that? Why did the "msdos" filesystem get chosen? When I mount the > device "manually", I can (successfully) use the "vfat" filesystem. The mount programm follows these steps, according to the manpage-snippet you posted: 1 -> check with blkid library 2 -> probe superblock 3 -> consider /etc/filesystems 4 -> consider /proc/filesystems If a step succeeds, the following steps will be ignored. So your mount succeeds either at step 1 or 2 with the result of msdos-filesystem. /etc/filesystems doesn't even get read. Just provide 'vfat' instead of 'auto' in your /etc/fstab and /dev/SigmaTel will get mounted with it.
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