fs detection and volume labels

[Joe Shaw]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 19:25 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Oh, yeah, I've forgot to mention that the block.fstype is already set
> for mounted block device since we already intercept changes to /etc/mtab
> using the dnotify stuff (it's been like this for a long time).
> 
> The new thing is that we also do it for unmounted block devices.

Ah, yes, I see that now with a USB thumbdrive.

> > Yeah, I think it's definitely worthwhile.
> > 
> 
> Great, I'll add a note to doc/TODO :-). Seriously, we probably don't
> need all the fancy stuff that mount(1) does; I think volumes labels for
> FAT and optical discs are the most important to support initially as
> *nix filesystems labels are rather unimportant for desktop use.

Yeah, and with udev policy the unix labels seem obsolete.  Still, they'd
be good to add if anyone else lurking on the list wanted to whip up a
patch.  (Hint, hint. ;)

Joe


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