On Thursday 29 January 2004 12:02 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2004-01-25 at 20:19 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
mount won't know how to figure out the filesystem. You either tell it by what is in /etc/fstab, or you tell it on the command line:
As a matter of fact, it does :-)
You simply define the filesystem as "auto" in /etc/fstab. So looking at my fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync
Surely the word noauto should read auto? The fstab man page says that those last three csv values include the fs type and I have auto as the 3rd field specifying the fs.
Hylton Conacher
The noauto/auto you refer to means to automatically mount after booting or not. Why would you automatically mount a floppy drive AFTER booting? With / or /home and other partitions and devices such as hard drives you do want some of them to be automatically mounted. The "auto" between the directory mount point "/media/floppy" and the parameters "noauto,user,sync" refers to filesystem detection. HTH, Stan