May 10, 2011
7:47 a.m.
Hi,
vfat module was not loaded before, it got loaded only after I issued the mount command. We can see this info in the udev log. Moreover there was no entry for the usbstick partition in /etc/fstab. So someone kernel/userspace takes the decision that vfat.ko should be used for managing fat32 partitions. I was trying to identify this component.
'mount' itself was responsible for guessing the vfat driver. Running mount with -v gave the following output # mount -v /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdb1 I will try type vfat /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb type vfat (rw) -- Thanks Sudheer