[techtalk] fstab query.

[aaron]

Change msdos to vfat in the fstab.  Line 4 is probably the filesystem
type that it's complaining about.  I don't believe "auto" is valid.

The vfat option mentioned above assumes you have vfat support in your
kernel.  Do a cat /proc/filesystems to see if it is supported.

- Aaron Schultz
- aaron at powertrip.net
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:

> /dev/hda3               /                       ext2    defaults       1 1
> /dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults       0 0
> /dev/hda1		/mnt/dosc		msdos	defaults      0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    sync,user,noauto,
> unhide   0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro     0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       0 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  mode=0622      0 0
> 
> 
> So this is my fstab.  I want it to automount my win98 partition and have
> my floppy drive read all formats.  However, in /mnt/dosc, when i ls, I get
> the truncated names.  I tried having it mount it vfat, but it didn't give
> any of the filenames that were longer.  (program files becomes progr~1 in
> msdos and nonexistent in vfat)
> also, it dislikes line 4 at boot.  (that's the line about /dev/fd0.)  I
> have it as one line, but it goes beyond the edge of the screen.  It
> doesn't *say* what's wrong with line 4 of fstab, either.  :P
> 
> So what have I done wrong?  How do I fix it?  (I read man mount and man
> fstab.  Man, that stuff is in need of being less confusing.)
> 
> Conni
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