OK. I localized the problem to mounting fat12 (i.e. floppy images) by
loopback. Can you try that please? I'd like to know if 2.0.33 "fixes" it
:-) Or if it's meant to be that way.
> > This is just a prober before I start looking. I have mount 2.5m and
> > libc 5.4.38. The RH 4.2 system I tried had what you'd expect.
>
> Not sure what I should've done, but I compiled a kernel with the
Yeah, that was all fine.
> > I managed to just about run mk2fs on a looped file, but mkdosfs
> > refused outright (no geometry). I couldn't mount either.
>
> I've never been able to get mkdosfs to initialise a file for loopback
> either, but mke2fs has no problems - it just asks "Not a device file,
> use anyway?" and when I say "y" it goes ahead and sets it up...
Yes, I was wrong. mke2fs works fine. mkdosfs doesn't. losetup
/dev/loop0 foo; mount -t msdos /dev/loop0 /mnt hangs (should one use "-o
loop" here? I can't recall).
> Best wishes from Riley.
Thanks for the response.
Peter
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