On 10.10.2013 10:21, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
> I came across an old bug report where the user had set the utf8 mount
> option in /etc/fstab on a floppy, presumably to apply to a fat
> filesystem, but when a disk formatted with ext2 was used, the mount
> failed sine ext2 doesn't support this option.
>
> That got me wondering, how are you supposed to specify mount options
> with the auto fs type? Certainly you don't just have to limit the
> options to ones that are universal to all filesystems? But how to
> specify that these options are for fs A, and these for fs B?
AFAIK "mount -s" is just for that case:
- man mount -
-s Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than failing. This will
ignore mount options not supported by a filesystem type. Not all
filesystems support this option. This option exists for support of the
Linux autofs-based automounter.
- man mount -
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Matthias
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