National ISO in fstab

Sat Jan 3 13:23:49 UTC 2004

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:28, Sheedee wrote:
> I've got a problem with /etc/fstab.
> If I want to mount a vfat partition, only IS9660 encoding (that for CD's) 
> is available. Choosing any other ISO norm would result in error message 
> saying that the encoding is not supported in kernel. (Which I've recompiled 
> and made sure to add support for these encodings...). Have I missed 
> something? I know it's propably just my /dev/hands ;), but still I have no 
> idea where the problem might be.

ISO9660 is not an encoding, but the filesystem used on CD's, also known
as CDFS. UDF is also another filesystem usually found on DVD's and CD-RW
discs written using Incremental Packet Writing.

On the other hand, ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15, and UTF-8 are encondings.