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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Steven, is it possible that my mounting FAT32 with
> > BL2 (or BL3) could have caused the problem?
>
> BL2 does vfat.

I just look up the .config and yes it does, but BL3 does not.  (Why?)
bare.i kernel does.  I set up my kernel for vfat as a module which appears 
to be a mistake.  Now even when I try to mount a floppy disk it tells me 
the kernel does not support vfat (when I am trying to mount a DOS floppy 
disk without long file names) and I have to specify -t msdos.
I will recompile with vfat=y.

> --------------------------------------------------------
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS   This option provides support for normal
> Windows filesystems with long filenames. That includes
> non-compressed FAT-based filesystems used by Windows 95,
> Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and mtools.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> > I thought mount automatically detected the file
> > system type,
>
> It does with some types, but not others.

Does it detect ext2 automatically?  If I have fat and vfat in the kernel 
will it do DOS drives automatically?  I don't know if my floppy disk was 
formatted with DOS 7.10 (which does long file names).

So VFAT is not FAT32?  Can the Bl2 kernel mount a FAT32 partition?

Why did I get a message saying the kernel does not support vfat and then I 
was able to mount it as msdos?  I am obviously confused.

> > or does it just assume msdos if it is not linux?
>
> No.

Usually when I try to mount DOS hd or fd with Bl2 (or Bl3?) it mounts it 
but tells me it did not find an ext2 filesystem.  The way I have it with 
modules it tells me the kernel does not support vfat and does not mount 
the drive.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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