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From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mount can figure out fstype automatically
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Quoting Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>:
> Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> writes:
>> I've come up with a patch that does this, by interpreting
>> an fstype of "" as:
>>  - starting with "ufs", iterate over all the local filesystem types
>>    that we know about, and try to mount the device
>
> What about cases where there may be several matching file systems?
> For instance, a clean ext3 file system is also a valid ext2 file
> system (and vice versa).

I've also seen cases where a partition is formatted FAT32, then 
newfs'ed [ufs] under FreeBSD, but still mount-able as FAT32. (Windows 
will in fact automount such partitions even if the partition type is 
165. grr..)

JN