Re: Error in man page for fstab

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Brad Goodman wrote:
>> The fstab man page contains the following text:
>>
>> >> The third field, (fs_vfstype) ... An entry "none" is  useful  for bind or move mounts
>>
>> "none" is interpreted as an actual vfstype, which does not have the
>> intended consequences.
>
>  The bind mounts are completely independent on FS type. The type does
>  not make sense here. The recent version of the mount(8) always
>  overwrites the FS type to "none" for all MS_BIND, MS_MOVE and
>  MS_PROPAGATION operations.
>

If I specify "none" as the third parameter in fstab, and try to mount
a DVD, I get an error on mount:

Unrecognized fs type "none"

If I change this to "auto", it correctly mounts as iso9660.

-BKG
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