How to use fstab-sync?

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:44 +0200, Thomas Gufler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your answer. I made the symlink and now fstab-sync works.
> 
> Now I am faced with an other (small) problem: 
> fstab-sync adds an entry for my usbstick with msdos as file system type. But 
> with msdos as type the length of the filename is limited to 8 (+3 extension) 
> characters. So the filenames look like this: semina~1.sxw
> However if I mount my usbstick with vfat as type I get the full file name 
> (e.g. SeminararbeitS2.sxw)
> IMHO it would be better if fstab-sync also use vfat as type.
> 

Right. I'm also facing this problem; I've put in a small hack such that
volume_id returns vfat even though it is probed as msdos and now it
EWORKSME. Kay, any comments?

Thanks,
David
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