New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Jan 26 22:45:50 UTC 2006


Nat Gross wrote:
> 
> ok. just ran mkfs on sda1, sda2, sda3.
> Now, I notice this line in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat   
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,managed 0 0
> 
> It seems like FC4 decided to that for me earlier, since this is a usb device.
> Anhow, do I need all those options (for the new mounts)?
> Thank you all;
> -nat
> 
Any fstab entry that has the managed option is a temporary eentry. The
entry gets removed when the device is unplugged. I am not sure if
the version you are running handles drives with more then one
partition...

Mikkel
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