From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 3:49:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (hide14.nhs.uk [194.6.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CE014DC3 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 03:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk) Received: from greg (gquinlan [194.81.0.56]) by mail.swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA49096 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:46:05 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <01f301bec478$7bd30860$380051c2@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: Subject: Mount enhancement? Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:48:55 +0100 Organization: Queen Mary's Hospital (SWLCT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there anyone that has any thoughts on making mount a single step? mount_msdos mount_cd9960 mount_ntfs mount_ext2fs just mount Under another x86 Unix based OS they use just "mount" for all filesystem and device mounting, and determine the filesystem type using "dtype" (data type), so instead of using a separate mount command for every hardware device or filesystem, it is just "mount." (of course their are perhaps the odd exception) To achieve this a intermediate step to determine the data-type would be required then perhaps to call the appropriate mount command with the command line parameters. Has anyone got any thoughts? Greg (ps. please include me in the reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message