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| author | Karel Zak | 2007-12-14 15:09:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2007-12-17 10:03:13 +0100 |
| commit | 351a93169ebb30295221c37a22726ff63137f2a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f3489fdeed58ac4dbeb288f1e16c5d670ba86db /mount/mount.c | |
| parent | tests: redirect libblkid cache to BLKID_FILE (diff) | |
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mount: hint about helper program if device doesn't exist
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #452330
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/mount.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/mount.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mount/mount.c b/mount/mount.c index 99ad97033..917f62ac4 100644 --- a/mount/mount.c +++ b/mount/mount.c @@ -1227,7 +1227,13 @@ try_mount_one (const char *spec0, const char *node0, const char *types0, " missing codepage or helper program, or other error"), spec); - if (stat(spec, &statbuf) == 0 && S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode) + if (stat(spec, &statbuf) < 0) { + if (errno == ENOENT) /* network FS? */ + error(_( + " (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might\n" + " need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)")); + + } else if (S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode) && (fd = open(spec, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK)) >= 0) { if (blkdev_get_size(fd, &size) == 0) { |