Linux kernel documentation

[Paul Howarth]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Have you tried changing the fstab "options" column entry?
>>You might try putting "nojoliet" in there for an alternate
>>mount point. There's also a "case=<code>", documented for
>>HPFS and HFS. It might also work for ISO9660. You might
>>try "case=asis". The default (since 2.2.x) has been
>>"case=lower".
> 
> 
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>>This may be a stupid question, but where did you come up with your
>>answer? I have manned fstab and mount, but see no mention of case,
>>joliet, etc in there or on any other resource that google points me to
>>when searching for fstab.
> 
> 
> I'm not Mike, but I suspect he's been looking in the documentation that
> comes with the Linux kernel source.
> 
> On Fedora Core 4, you can install the kernel-doc RPM, cd to
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.*, and look in the
> Documentation/filesystems folder.
> 
> Or you can download a tarball of the source, or somewhere like
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/15/Documentation/filesystems/ .
> 
> It's well worth being aware of this documentation -- there's a lot of
> good technical points in there.

The mount options Mike referred to are all mentioned in "man mount" 
actually, at least in FC4.

Paul.