Re: How to access loop-aes mounted vfat filesystem as non-root user- help required!

[Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil H wrote:
> It's dawned (!) on me that this is because I'm using
> fat options in the mount line, so mount automatically
> assumes it's a (v)fat filesystem.

if you can, don't let mount(8) *guess* what filesystem to mount. as the 
manpage states:

  "If your data  is  valuable,  don't  ask  mount  to guess."

this is why the -t option is for.

but this has nothing to do with crypto and is basically just unix 101...

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