Shridhar Daithankar rearranged electrons thusly:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > To mount it, do
> > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hdtemp <=== assuming /mnt/hdtemp exists, if not use
> > some directory which _does_ exist
> #mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hdtemp
> It will help to identify the drive as FAT. May not be necessary but just to be
> sure...
I think that the type need not be explicitly specified when the device is in /etc/fstab
yep ... from man mount(8)
(ii) When mounting a file system mentioned in fstab, it suffices to give only
the device, or only the mount point.
--suresh
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