how to suggest filesystem type for a volume?

Artem Baguinski artm at v2.nl
Sun Sep 5 02:53:37 PDT 2004


Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 23:42 +0200, Artem Baguinski wrote:

>>hmmm... i seem to have found a hacky workaround:
>>
>>    <device>
>>      <match key="volume.fstype" string="msdos">
>>        <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">vfat</merge>
>>      </match>
>>    </device>
>>
>>now anything autodetected as msdos will be mounted as vfat. i have no 
>>idea if that's ok but it works for my devices. but for real, i probably 
>>have to get rid of msdos filesystem in my kernel altogether.
> 
> 
> What version of HAL do you use? This should not happen anymore. I have
> completely removed the "msdos"-type from volume_id the lib that sniffs
> your disk. We have a fsversion property now, which tells you your FAT
> version and everything is mounted vfat.

in the meantime i got rid of msdos filesystem support in my kernel...

i'm using 0.2.97 from gentoo.

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