From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 17:06:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA21355 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:06:11 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA21349 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 17:06:09 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA21269; Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:59:27 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502240059.AA21269@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: how to specify msdos mount flags in fstab To: pirzyk@fa.disney.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:59:27 MST Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, muir@idiom.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9502231757.ZM6435@pepper> from "pirzyk@fa.disney.com" at Feb 23, 95 05:57:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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... > > the noauto stuff came from sun's implementation. They have a noauto option. Primary usefulness is in relationship to removable media like floppies and cdroms, where you can mount them by mount point rather than mounting them by the whole long command line you would need otherwise. I give it two thumbs up, Roger! Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.