From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa) Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:35:45 +0700 Subject: How does the kernel chooses the 'vfat' module for fat32 partitions? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi... On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 14:47, Sudheer Divakaran wrote: > 'mount' itself was responsible for guessing the vfat driver. Running > mount with -v gave the following output we both are partly correct, from "man mount": " If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is specified, mount will try to guess the desired type. Mount uses the blkid or volume_id library for guessing the filesystem type; if that does not turn up anything that looks familiar, mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems, or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems. All of the filesystem types listed there will be tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev" (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems ends in a line with a single * only, mount will read /proc/filesystems afterwards. " -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com