How does the kernel chooses the 'vfat' module for fat32 partitions?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi...

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 14:47, Sudheer Divakaran
<inbox1.sudheer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'mount' itself was responsible for guessing the vfat driver. Running
> mount with -v gave the following output


we both are partly correct, from "man mount":
" If no -t option is given, or if  the  auto  type  is  specified,
              mount  will try to guess the desired type.  Mount uses the blkid
              or volume_id library for guessing the filesystem type;  if  that
              does not turn up anything that looks familiar, mount will try to
              read the file /etc/filesystems, or,  if  that  does  not  exist,
              /proc/filesystems.   All  of  the  filesystem types listed there
              will be tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"  (e.g.,
              devpts,  proc and nfs).  If /etc/filesystems ends in a line with
              a single * only, mount will read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
"

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