Hi,
>>
>
> vfat module was not loaded before, it got loaded only after I issued
> the mount command. We can see this info in the udev log. Moreover
> there was no entry for the usbstick partition in /etc/fstab. So
> someone kernel/userspace takes the decision that vfat.ko should be
> used for managing fat32 partitions. I was trying to identify this
> component.
>
'mount' itself was responsible for guessing the vfat driver. Running
mount with -v gave the following output
# mount -v /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdb1
I will try type vfat
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw)
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Thanks
Sudheer
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