Jeff Vian wrote:
Randy Ramsdell wrote:
Yes, it is normal for mount to work this way. It tries to autodetect the fs type and usually works with most filesystems.What is this all about?
If I mount an ext3 filesystem like this:
mount /dev/hdb1 /backup
It mounts, but "ls /backup" produces : Literally !
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If I mount like like this:
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /backup
"ls /backup" shows the actual files correctly.
Since there isn't an entry in fstab for /backup, I am not sure why "mount" actually mounts the drive.
Is this normal?
Which os version? FC2?
I don't understand why it does not autodetect the fs type. Mine does the autodetect flawlessly. This seems to really be your problem.
I have several other drives and mount always gives a "wrong -fs " messages or something similar to taht when not specifying fs type.
Well, it turns out it was being mounted as vfat. I have no idea where that is coming from. Again, fstab is not set for this partition.
It is fixed or at least I know what the drive is being mounted as.
Thanks for the responses.
RCR
