On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:55:01PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sat 26 Aug 2006 at 12:02:18 +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> > fsck seems to think my partition is msdos while it isn't??
> 
> It is probably because my fstab bas an msdos entry for USB stick memory,
> which also will be sd0 (if it's the only USB mass storage that's
> inserted). *ponders* Maybe fsck should look in disklabels instead of
> fstab, if possible, since that is more probable to have correct
> information...

Actually fstab is more likely to be correct!

Another option is to look at the partition contents, but that way lies
madness since fsck could identify the partition as having the wrong
type (due to state data from a previous format) and attempt to 'fix'
something that really doesn't exist any more!

Some systems have an fstype program that (attempts to) determine the
file system type.

	David

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