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SubjectRe: VFAT/FAT

On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:

>
> Hallo,
>
> I know there was a discussion about the relationship between VFAT/FAT
> but this is new (at least to me ;)
>
> I compiled 2.0.26 with MS-DOS-FAT and VFAT as modules. They are loaded
> (lsmod) VFAT on top off FAT. When I try to mount a floppy by
> 'mount -tfat' it says, that there's no kernel support for FAT (FAT is not
> listed in /proc/filesystems!).
> 'mount -tvfat' works fine, so I don't really have a problem. I'm only
> a bit curious what happens...
>
> Thanks,
>

Load VFAT partitions with "-t vfat" and FAT partitions with "-t msdos."
Maybe "fat" should be slopped in /proc/filesystems as well, as an alias
for "msdos."

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