On Friday 01 August 2003 13:34, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Thanks! > > Here's a harder question: With the "auto" file system type option, mount > will mount a vfat floppy as msdos. Other than change the type from "auto" > to vfat, is there any way to have vfat be the preferred option?
Yes. Take a look at '/proc/filesystems'. "The superblock is probed for the filesystem type... If this probe fails, mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems, or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems. All of the filesystem types listed there will be tried, except for those that are labeled 'nodev'" (man mount). "The auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies. Creating a file /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order (e.g., to try vfat before msdos)..." (man mount). I don't know why the developers chose to make "/etc/filesystems" a symbolic link to "/proc/filesystems" because it is not needed (any takers) but you can remove the symbolic link, copy "/proc/filesystems" to "/etc/filesystems", then, edit the file to your liking. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
