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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed in udev (again)?
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:34:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811042134.07389.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811041901.33640.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:01:19 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 08:50:18 Mick wrote:
> > > Can't mount my camera.  This is what Konqueror comes up with:
> >
> > Ahem. You have a camera with an ext3 filesystem on it?
> >
> > What kind of super camera do you have that understands ext3? Those things
> > almost universally have vfat.
>
> Yes, it is vfat - I couldn't explain the ext3 thing either (see below).
>
> > I'd say you have a b0rked fstab. Udev has nothing to do with it as udev
> > does not understand filesystems either - mount undertsands filesystems.
>
> Spot on!  I was well surprised to see that my fstab had an ext3 fs
> specified. Must have been from me experimenting with a NSLU2 device and its
> fs - not sure.
>
> Thanks for your help!

You shouldn't be thanking me quite so effusively. 

You have no idea how many times I've made the same mistake :-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-04  6:50 [gentoo-user] Something changed in udev (again)? Mick
2008-11-04  7:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-04 19:01   ` Mick
2008-11-04 19:34     ` Alan McKinnon [this message]

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