Fat (dos) floppy discs won't mount, filesystem unrecognised.

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:49:10PM -0600, ward wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem and that fstab line worked, thanks Jeremy!
> However, I have the same question as Neil, why doesn't auto detect that
> it's vfat?

I don't think the kernel can distinguish between msdos and vfat.

>From the mount man page:

              The auto type may be useful for user-mounted floppies.  Creating
              a file /etc/filesystems can be useful to change the probe order
              (e.g.,  to  try vfat before msdos) or if you use a kernel module
              autoloader.  Warning: the probing uses a heuristic (the presence
              of  appropriate `magic'), and could recognize the wrong filesys-
              tem type, possibly with catastrophic consequences. If your data
              is valuable, don't ask mount to guess.