mount fat regression

[Philippe Leduc]

I loaded our 'old' barebox (barebox 2015.10.0-01455-g90387ba) and here
is the output of filetype (same board):

filetype /dev/mmc2.netcom
/dev/mmc2.netcom: FAT filesytem (fat)

Philippe LEDUC
ledphilippe at gmail.com


2016-02-25 10:37 GMT+01:00 Philippe Leduc <ledphilippe at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> This was working before :) (at least with barebox version 2015.10).
> Honestly , this may be a misconfiguration on our part (and the fact
> that it worked doesn't mean that it was a normal behavior).
>
> Here is the output:
> filetype  /dev/mmc2.netcom
> /dev/mmc2.netcom: MBR sector (mbr)
>
> And it is cleary different with a working partition:
> filetype /dev/mmc1.0
> /dev/mmc1.0: FAT filesytem (fat)
>
> I format the partitions with fatfs f_mkfs, and I do not use f_disk to
> create partition table. This could be the problem. I'll check that
> point.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Philippe LEDUC
> ledphilippe at gmail.com
>
>
> 2016-02-25 9:56 GMT+01:00 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Philippe Leduc wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems that there is a regression in the mount command for fat
>>> filesystem: if I try to mount a partition that is formatted with
>>> fatfs, I got this error:
>>>
>>> mount /dev/mmc2.netcom
>>> mount: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> I do not have the problem with a fat formatted with Windows or Linux.
>>>
>>> Do you have an idea?
>>
>> Are you sure this is a regression? Did this work before? I don't think
>> that FAT support in general is broken, it's probably something with your
>> special setup.
>>
>> What does 'filetype /dev/mmc2.netcom' give you?
>>
>> Sascha
>>
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