Waht is up with mount?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Jun 21 18:20:39 UTC 2004
Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> What is this all about?
>
> If I mount an ext3 filesystem like this:
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /backup
>
> It mounts, but "ls /backup" produces : Literally !
>
> >??.@?? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.%^? ??.%^?
> ???.??? ??.4^? ??.4^? ?a.?e? ?a.?e? ?m" ?m".?m"
> ???.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.%^? ??.%^?
> ??.4^? ??.4^? ??.4^? ?a.?e? ?a.?e? ?m" ?m".?m"
> ???.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.??? ??.%^? ??.%^?
> ??.4^? ??.4^? ??.4^? ?a.?e? ?a.?e? ?m" ?n"
>
>
> 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?
>
Yes, it is normal for mount to work this way. It tries to autodetect
the fs type and usually works with most filesystems.
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.
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