2.6.8-rc3: vfat problem [was: Re: [Problem] 2.6.8-rc3: usb-storage devices are read-only (NOT related to iocharset)]

From: R. J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 13:08:30 EST


On Monday 09 of August 2004 11:56, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:09:23PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 of August 2004 21:57, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On 2.6.8-rc3 and 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 I get:
> > >
> > > chimera:~ # mount -t vfat -o iocharset=iso8859-2 /dev/sdd1
> > > /media/pendrive [snip]
> > > chimera:~ # mount -t vfat -o codepage=437 /dev/sdd1 /media/pendrive
> > > [snip]
>
> Does it work if you specify both iocharset and codepage?

Yes. They may be contradictory, however (eg if I specify codepage=437 and
iocharset=iso8859-2 it kind of "works", but I don't think it's OK).

Thanks,
RJW

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