RE: [newbie] problems mounting floppy

[John Aldrich]

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Two quick questions on the mounting of removable storage media.
> 
> In the case of floppies, or Zip disks, where you might use both ext2 and
> vfat filesystems, is there any way of having a single icon, or rather a
> single mount command so that it can mount both types?
> 
> I have seen the 'auto' used in fstab as the filesystem type.  What does auto
> mean in this context?
> 
It should auto-detect.
At least that's been my experience.
        John