Using lofs in the /etc/fstab file

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

I have a Fedora Core 2 system and I wanted to use the lofs option in my /etc/fstab file in order to mount two filesystems that are not block devices. However, when I modified the file, and then ran the mount -a command I encountered an error message that read:

fs type: lofs not supported by kernel.

Is there an lofs module that I can download and compile into the kernel to correct this, or is there another method that can be used to accomplish the same thing that lofs would normally? Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

Funny thing about Fedora Core. The kernel does not have support for lofs and ntfs. Yet if you define an ntfs filesystem at install, the necessary drivers are built into the kernel.

Seems strange its not built in.

So, yes there probably is a module for it if its one of the filesystems listed as supported by fdsik.

SEP