https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412139
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--- Comment #14 from Michael Dreher 2008-08-18 15:24:16 MDT ---
Yes, I expect a FAT filesystem to be recognized. Other file systems like an SD
card are being recognized and automatically mounted, only this special external
hard disk is not, starting from opensuse 11.0.
Your comment "we can not do really anything for automounting" is certainly
wrong, because you could give us the behaviour back from opensuse 10.2 and 10.3
when everything was fine and working normally.
Reformatting the disk is unfortunately not an option. The whole purpose of an
external hard disk is to provide additional storage space for huge data which
you can not save otherwise. So reformatting would mean that I have to buy
another hard disk first just to save the data before formatting, without any
guarantee that this reformatting would lead to a "better" filesystem.
Moreover, today I have checked the partition with windows XP several times
(fast and thorough, with and without autorepairing), and chkdsk from windows XP
always reported that everything is good. So it would be nice if you could tell
us why the filesystem should be "invalid" ? It works under windows, it works if
I mount it by hand under linux, so what should be wrong ? Is it possible that
the checks which are mentioned in that git patch are unrealistically strict,
making linux more popish than the Pope ?
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