On 02/26/2016 11:53 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-02-26 17:41, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 02/26/2016 11:37 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Usually if you do "mount /dev/somedev /mnt" without type, mount will try various filesystem types causing them to be loaded.
True, but not relevant here as this situation arises immediately after a fresh boot. I've been though that cycle a couple of times this morning to verify.
Yes, on a fresh boot fstab is read, and if there are entries with "auto" type, several are tried till a good one is found.
From MAN(mount)
<quote> If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is specified, mount will try to guess the desired type. Mount uses the blkid library for guessing the filesystem type; if that does not turn up anything that looks familiar, 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" (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems ends in a line with a single * only, mount will read /proc/filesystems afterwards. All of the filesystem types will be mounted with mount option "silent". </quote> Yes, interesting. Firstly, all the file systems mounts in /etc/fstab are fully specified, so this doesn't apply there. Second, I have 'blkid' able to identify all my file systems, and, as I've said, none are the mavericks such as minix, qnx4 etc. Third I have # more /etc/filesystems vfat reiserfs exfat exfat_fuse * The four specified I do, as I've discussed, use. So the "*" is there, but that should never apply because the 'blkid' is applied first and there's nothing which it can't recognise. Wouldn't any blkid attempts show up in dmesg? There aren't any. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org