Re: NTFS partition tried to mount as reiserfs

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Peter Klotz wrote:
> > On Monday 07 January 2008, Peter Klotz wrote:
> >> When trying to mount one of my NTFS partitions without specifying the
> >> "-t" option mount uses reiserfs instead of NTFS.
> >>
> >> The mount command (util-linux-ng 2.13):
> >
> > with 2.13+, mount itself no longer does filesystem detection.  instead,
> > that job is left up to other (better) libraries which is a good thing
> > (people maintaining mount need not spend time on it).
> >
> > however, there are two different libraries util-linux will attempt to use
> > and the one is decided at build time.  please post the output of:
> > ldd $(which util-linux)
> > so that we can figure out what library you're using and so you can figure
> > out what library you should see if there is a newer version of
> >
> > Karel: perhaps we should include this information in the output of
> > `mount --version` ?
>
> There seems to be no util-linux binary on my system.

sorry, i meant "mount" of course

> I can provide the dynamic dependencies of mount instead:
>
> root@centrino:~# ldd /bin/mount
>          linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>          libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb7f10000)
>          libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dc6000)
>          libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7dc1000)
>          libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0xb7d80000)
>          /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f36000)

hrm, i'm guessing you didnt build util-linux by yourself ?  what distribution 
are you using and what version of the package ?  if you did build util-linux, 
please post the config.log after running `./configure`.
-mike

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