On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:47:03PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | I discourage the practice of mounting system partitions with type | 'auto'. Specify what you want. If you get it, great, if you don't, fix | the problem.
Sure, for hard disks. For floppies I like the 'auto' option. Then I don't have to worry about it being ext2, vfat, msdos, or whatever. Say, do you have any recommendations for a fs that is well suited for floppies? I seem to recall some issues with floppies and the UID mkfs.ext2 ran as. -D -- "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix
