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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:17 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Greg Mayman wrote:

>>   mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
> That's not a complete mounting command.  You are missing
> the mountpoint.

Aha! I'm learning something!

>>   ls /fd
>> This gave me a list of the files but with the short filenames.
> Because, when you give an incomplete mounting command,
> Linux looks in /etc/fstab to see if that device is
> listed there.  In BL3 /dev/fd0 is listed in /etc/fstab
> so Linux uses the data there to mount it.  That data
> has msdos (not vfat) as the filesystem type.

Hmmm... I don't understand that fully, but I am getting some of it.

>>   mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
>>   ls /mnt
>> The list of files was now in the longname format.
> Since you issued a complete mounting command, Linux did
> not have to go to /etc/fstab.

Yes, I can see that now.

Thanks for clearing it up.

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