From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 12: 6:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2778514F02 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 12:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08447; Mon, 17 May 1999 12:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:06:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie: with fstab and mounting.... In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFF603890@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message