Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:05:20 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting /c Message-ID: <4967E640.7050309@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20090109235521.GA49508@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4967C511.3060100@comcast.net> <20090109235521.GA49508@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> Question 1) >> >> I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: >> >> alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' >> >> It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by >> mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab: >> >> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump >> Pass# >> /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfs rw 1 0 >> > > When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only. > Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help. > > I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup. This is not a big deal since I can get /c mounted via the alias; I'm just trying to understand why it doesn't work. I recall that on an old system of mine I had fstab set up as you indicate and it worked fine. Rem
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