[Gllug] HFS formatted ZIP discs

[Richard Turner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk] On
Behalf
> Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: 7 July 2003 12:07 am
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] HFS formatted ZIP discs
> 
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:47:04PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> > Checking /etc/fstab I see that the entry that's been added for
> > /dev/sda4, the USB ZIP drive my housemate borrowed from work, shows
that
> > the filesystem specified is 'auto'.  Any ideas why this works for
> > automounting FAT zip discs but not HFS formatted ones?  Has anyone
else
> > come across this and configured their machines to correctly choose
> > between FAT and HFS when automounting a zip?
> 
> If the fs type is given as auto then the filesystem is probed to see
if
> it matches any of the types the kernel knows about.  The kernel only
> knows about those types which have been compiled into the kernel or
> those types whose module has been loaded.
> 
> So if you want to be able to automatically detect a range of
filesystems
> you need to load all the respective modules or have them all compiled
> into the kernel.

OK, so does mounting the disc manually:

# mount -t hfs /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip

load the hfs module automatically?  This works fine, but this doesn't:

# mount -t autofs /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
(nor does 'mount -t auto /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip' - I tried just in case :-)
)

Richard.


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