Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4053 mails)

[s_bulterman@xxxxxx]

Had this problem with SuSE 6.4 but didn't really test it on SuSE 7.2.....
Nice to know it changed, gone try this for myself......

Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> 
> s_bulterman@xxxxxx writes:
> 
> > Another way to do this is to put two entries in the fstab:
> > /dev/zipdos     /zipdos    vfat    noauto,user,sync 0 0
> > /dev/zipext     /zipext    ext2    noauto,user,sync 0 0
> >
> > And to make the symlinks zipdos (ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zipdos) and
> > zipext (ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zipext) point to sda4....
> >
> > The auto option would work but when a vfat disk is inserted and
> > mounted it will be mounted as msdos and not as vfat.....
> > The 8.3 horror.....
> 
> Strange. On my system, the vfat zip is mounted as a vfat file system
> (not as a msdos FS) and thus there is no 8.3 limit there:
> 
> $ grep zip /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdd4       /media/zip      auto    noauto,user 0 0
> $ mount /media/zip
> $ mount | grep zip
> /dev/hdd4 on /media/zip type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=malusek)
> $ ls /media/zip  # no 8.3 limit
> ctmod.tar.bz2  readme.txt
> 
> I use SuSE 7.2.
> 
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Thanks in advance,
Stefan
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