From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:48:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mount: add note about subtypes to fstab.5
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mount: add note about subtypes to fstab.5

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/mount/fstab.5 b/mount/fstab.5
index 1c5cdca9..8a834873 100644
--- a/mount/fstab.5
+++ b/mount/fstab.5
@@ -146,6 +146,14 @@ An entry
 .I none
 is useful for bind or move mounts.
 
+.BR mount (8)
+and
+.BR umount (8)
+support filesystem subtypes. The subtype is defined by '.subtype' suffix.  For
+example 'fuse.sshfs'. It's recommended to use subtype notation rather than add
+any prefix to the first fstab field (for example 'sshfs#example.com' is
+depreacated). 
+
 The fourth field,
 .RI ( fs_mntops ),
 describes the mount options associated with the filesystem.
diff --git a/mount/mount.8 b/mount/mount.8
index 2fe0db8d..0147e71d 100644
--- a/mount/mount.8
+++ b/mount/mount.8
@@ -596,6 +596,15 @@ was known as
 Note, the real list of all supported filesystems depends on your
 kernel.
 
+The programs
+.B mount
+and
+.B umount
+support filesystem subtypes.  The subtype is defined by '.subtype' suffix.  For
+example  'fuse.sshfs'. It's recommended to use subtype notation rather than add
+any prefix to the mount source (for example 'sshfs#example.com' is
+depreacated).
+
 For most types all the
 .B mount
 program has to do is issue a simple