New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

[Nat Gross]

On 1/26/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
>
> > So, now the question is. Since this is some kind of auto thingamajig,
> > can I still mount these partitions anywhere, say in /opt or
> > /usr/share, whatever?
> > Btw, I used ext2 on the 1, ext3 on 2 and 3. But fstab lists all as ext3.
>
> They are the same animal hardlinked...
>
> $ ll /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -i
> 4943338 -rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 38752 Sep  8 17:38 /sbin/mkfs.ext3
> $ ll /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -i
> 4943338 -rwxr-xr-x  3 root root 38752 Sep  8 17:38 /sbin/mkfs.ext2
>
>
> Not sure about controlling the automount point.  If you are okay maybe
> losing the automount action, you can just edit /etc/fstab and remove the
> "managed" token, and adjust the mountpoint away from /media/blah.
Sounds good to me.

> There's probably a better way in the newfangled udev and other stuff
> that makes this magic work but I know nothing about it.
>
> If you had enough investigations for now,
Ha. And how! My head is spinning more than the drive!

>I guess you can make a symlink  ln -s /media/usbdisk /opt
>
> for example and get on with your master plan.
Will do! Um...What's my master plan? Ohhh. I need to write some code.
Thank you much;
-nat