Segmentation Fault when accessing partition

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 10 17:50:42 UTC 2005


historian wrote:
> fstab entry
> /dev/hdb1 /Music auto noauto,user,rw,umask=0000
> (same for the other fat32 mounts that work normally except windows)

David Liguori queried:
> Don't you need -t vfat, or some such?

No: mount will try various filesystems, and work out that this
filesystem will mount as vfat. It's rather useful for floppies and USB
sticks, which tend to be used for file interchange and come with some
sort of FAT filesystem on them, but which can also be given native Linux
filesystems.

James.

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