Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed it appears it would be wise to always pass the filesystem type to mount either using -t or from /etc/fstab. (Although, *touch wood*, mount seems to be very good at guessing it's vfat if the (v)fat owner/group options are set). --- Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > if you can, don't let mount(8) *guess* what > filesystem to mount. as the > manpage states: > > "If your data is valuable, don't ask mount > to guess." > > this is why the -t option is for. > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
