From: John P. Looney (valen at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Thu 13 May 1999 - 13:06:04 IST
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 06:52:38AM -0500, Tony_Melia at domain Dell.com mentioned:
> Wouldn't the mount command simply say msdos not supported by kernal? you
> can test to see if it is by 'cat /proc/filesystems'.
No, because if the MSDOS module isn't there, it can't tell what filesystem
it is, if you do a standard "mount /dev/hda2 /dosc". If you do "mount -t
msdos /dev/hda2 /dosc", you make be told "Bugger off, I don't know know
stinking MSDOS filesystem", or sucklike, depending on the locale settings.
Kate
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