Recommended update for submount

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(Last modified: 04AUG2004)

solutions Recommended update for submount SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (00b5167835d588c46c25012fee5607f7)

Applies to

Package: submount
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for x86
SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM POWER
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM S/390 31bit
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE CORE 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
Patch: patch-9248
Release: 20040804
Obsoletes: none

Indications

Everyone with problems to mount filesystems via subfs should update.

Contraindications

None.

Problem description

Submount was not able to detect every filesystem. Especially some filesystems
on USB sticks caused problems. This version of submount tries to mount the
filesystems from /etc/filesystems if the detection failed.

Solution

Please install the updates provided at the location noted below.

Installation notes

This update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system by using this command:
rpm -Fvh submount.rpm

links to download packages

Download Source Packages

Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.

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