On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 09:44:50PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > However, merging `auto' with other types doesn't work as expected: > mount -t ext2,auto /dev/sde /media/stick > does not mount /dev/sde but returns: > mount: unknown filesystem type 'auto' Interesting use case. > Trying multiple fstypes before allowing mount to guess makes sense in > different scenarios, for example to prefer specific fstypes (ext2 > instead of ext3) or to try fstypes that mount doesn't guess (minix). I hope libblkid is able to detect minix ;-) > diff --git a/libmount/src/context_mount.c b/libmount/src/context_mount.c > index dcfdabf..d07fa02 100644 > --- a/libmount/src/context_mount.c > +++ b/libmount/src/context_mount.c > @@ -782,6 +782,8 @@ static int do_mount_by_pattern(struct libmnt_context *cxt, const char *pattern) > char *end = strchr(p, ','); > if (end) > *end = '\0'; > + if (strcmp(p, "auto") == 0) > + p = NULL; > rc = do_mount(cxt, p); This is insufficient solution, the code has to call an FS detection code. I have applied a little different solution. Thanks! Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html