Re: mke2fs and mount problem
>> I had miss-remembered the default for
>> mount as being ext2, when in fact it is minix.
> ...
>> Two questions: Why is minix the default file system for mount? Why does
>> mount hang when trying to mount an ext2 file system as minix?
Owen LeBlanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk> writes:
> Isn't there still a comment in the source for mount saying that the
> minix default is only temporary until ext2 stabilises? Some of us
> have been compiling mount with ext2 as the default for a long time,
> and some others may have had such mount commands without realising
> it.
For several util-linux versions, mount has been able to automatically
detect the magic of minix, ext, ext2, xiafs, and iso9660 filesystems.
mount-2.5i also detects High Sierra CD-ROM filesystems. I'd bet this
works right in the upcoming Debian 1.1 release.
The "default" setting is really meaningless nowadays.
> It seems to me a good idea to change the mount source in util-linux
> to default to ext2, and to see that all future binaries have this as
> the default.
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Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom
quinlan@bucknell.edu
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