How to use fstab-sync?

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:30 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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?

If volume_id returns msdos we can't be sure, that its's really vfat. But
the kernel can mount it anyhow as vfat. I think it's better to do the
trick it in fstab-sync itself. Thomas, you can reformat it with
mfks.vfat too :)

Kay

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