Re: 1.3.72 & vfat won't automount

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@bugs-bunny.CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:06:27 -0800


Date: Sun Mar 10 22:55:11 PST 1996
Peter Mutsaers <plm@compi.hobby.nl> writes:

> I found out that this happens because of a "user=405" option in my
> fstab file. Aparently the vfat filesystem doesn't like this option
> anymore. Without it I can mount also automatically at boottime.

Mount options parsing is wrong in vfat in the 1.3.72 kernel. To get
a patch that fixes this problem, look on
http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/vfat.html.

Gordon Chaffee
chaffee@bugs-bunny.cs.berkeley.edu