From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 12:56:13 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA12356 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:56:13 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA12350 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:56:07 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA10895; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:55:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:55:27 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502232055.AA10895@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: David Muir Sharnoff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: how to specify msdos mount flags in fstab In-Reply-To: <199502231023.CAA25490@idiom.com> References: <199502231023.CAA25490@idiom.com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > SYNOPSIS > mount_msdos [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node > Dumb question: how come that isn't "mount_msdos -o user=uid"? Because that's not the way mount options work any more. > As it stands, I don't see how you put the mount options in /etc/fstab. > Did I miss something obvious? Yes. /dev/xxxxx /msdos msdos rw,-u=12369,-g=100 0 0 > Speaking of which, how come there isn't a "noauto" flag? Hmmm. Interesting idea. Probably because there never was one, to my recollection. If you want to write the patches to implement it, go right ahead... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant