Comments on: Understanding Linux /etc/fstab

By: Trephined

Trephined — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:35:51 +0000

HAL FTW

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From Pine View Farm » Inside the Walled Garden (High Geek Alert) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:25:49 +0000

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By: What is KDE?

What is KDE? — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:45:20 +0000

It has been years since I personally have had the encoding problems, but these are the specifics as I remember them:
CD-ROMs do not support utf-8 file names without hacks.
Windows does not use UTF-8 for file names.
Therefore, moving non-ASCII named files from a Windows drive to Linux, or from a CD, is problematic unless fstab is properly configured for that specific charset/encoding.

You could probably troll linuxquestions.org for lots of examples.

By: jack

jack — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:09:55 +0000

that’s a good reference site.

can you give me an example of the encoding errors you are getting?

By: What is Linux?

What is Linux? — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:47:55 +0000

This is the page where I go for fstab issues, in fact, I had referred someone to there just today:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

I look forward to the next post, in which you touch upon common fstab problems. There are a few common issues with fstab, such as automounting and encoding errors, yet no page seems to tackle them all. Thanks!