On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:06:40PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| The default order comes from /proc/filesystems. There, msdos precedes
| msdos.
<grin>. Obviously a typo :-). Amusing to consider that possibility
though.
| > > You can specify a preferred order in /etc/filesystems and have it
| > > try vfat first.
| > >
| > I'm sorry to ask, but what package is that from? It's not on my box
|
| $ cat /proc/filesystems > /etc/filesystems
| $ vi /etc/filesystems
$ cat /proc/filesystems
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
ext3
ext2
cramfs
nodev devfs
nodev usbdevfs
nodev autofs
$ cat /etc/filesystems
ext2
vfat
msdos
iso9660
Did I make my /etc/filesystems wrong? I wasn't aware of
/proc/filesystems when I made /etc/filesystems, and identifying vfat
over msdos works. (funny how devfs is 'nodev')
Hmm, 'vfat', 'msdos', and 'iso9660' were made as modules.
modprobe-ing them adds them to the list in /proc/filesystems, at the
end (with no options, like "nodev").
Perhaps /proc/filesystems is the default order _if_ /etc/filesystems
doesn't exist? If I don't have /etc/filesystems, and I don't have the
vfat module loaded, will a vfat disk be identified? Time to RTFM and
try it out ...
-D
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but the Lord tests the heart.
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