From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Jul  2  5:58:41 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD35815059
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri,  2 Jul 1999 05:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at)
Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49)
	id <N6Q81YV0>; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:01:40 +0200
Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796C9@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
To: 'Greg Quinlan' <greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>,
	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Mount enhancement?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:55:29 +0200
X-Priority: 3
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49)
Content-Type: text/plain
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Greg Quinlan [SMTP:greg@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk]
> Sent:	Friday, July 02, 1999 12:49 PM
> To:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Mount enhancement?
> 
> 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."
	[ML]  you mean like
	mount -t ufs
	mount -t msdos
	mount -t cd9660
	mount -t ntfs
	mount -t ext2fs

	except that they probably use SYSV -F instead of ours -t?

	man 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


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message