Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> writes:

|> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:08:53AM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
|> 
|> > > mount /mnt/floppy
|> > >
|> > > Is that so hard? I know you enjoy slacking Linux, but maybe you should
|> > > dig a bit further in it's possibilities and also check what behaviour is
|> > > standard in most other unices before you do.
|> > 
|> > What about removable drives where the filesystem type could be "anything"?
|> > Like ISO, HFS or Audio on a CD-ROM?
|> 
|> On Linux, "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" works regardless of the FS type. I am not
|> sure if 'mount' or the kernel does the checks to find out the right FS.

It's the mount program that guesses (from looking at the superblock),
unless a type is already specified in /etc/fstab.

Andreas.

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