Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:06:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie: with fstab and mounting.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905171204080.15052-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF603890@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> I have finally got FreeBSD up and running (took a 5 days, but it worth it.)
> I love it, it faster that my linux system. Coming from linux I have some
> fstab questions.
>
> When I place:
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw 0 0
>
> in fstab tries to mount the floppy on boot even if there is none in there.
> Linux never did this, how do I make an fstab entry that will not automount
> the floppy.
So?
Add the 'noauto' flag to your options list:
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0
man fstab for details.
> Also, I have 2 linux partitions that I'd like to mount. I have tried an
> fstab entrys of:
>
> /dev/wd1s1b /linux ext2fs rw 1 1
>
> and
>
> /dev/wd1s1b /linux ext2fs rw 1 1
>
> and
>
> /dev/wd1s2b /linux ext2fs rw 1 1
^ Really?
> Now my linux partitions are on the 2 disk on my primary controller, but so
> are my FreeBSD partitions and they are all /dev/wd1s1f etc (which I'm not
> quite understanding yet?) But all they above give me does not exist errors.
Try making the device first:
/dev/MAKEDEV wd1s2
> The directory exists I made that, I saw the mount_ext2fs command in
> /sbin (i believe), so what doesn't exist? Or just what I'm I doing
> wrong!?
Doug White
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