Re: mount-problems

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 02:05:35 +0100 (MET)


> Is there a problem mounting loop or devices not in the /etc/fstab??

No.

> If I don't provide -t fs, the mount is on state D and hangs

If you don't provide -t fstype, then you force mount to guess.
So mount will have to read the start of your filesystem and
try to make sense of that. Maybe this hangs in your case.
Since you do not give mount version or kernel version or the
type of the fs, nothing much can be said about it.

Andries

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