From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 18:39:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12172 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:39:48 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA12167 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:39:44 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00508; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:38:51 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199510270138.SAA00508@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Problems To: scott@statsci.com Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Oct 26, 95 06:28:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1100 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk someone submitted a noauto patch If it can be found I'll commit the thing.. > > bmk@dtr.com wrote: > > > You have your cdrom listed in /etc/fstab. Leave a CD in the drive when > > you boot or you'll always see this message. You could also remove the > > offending line from /etc/fstab. > > Speaking of which, some OS's accept a 'noauto' option in their /etc/fstab > to tell 'mount -a' not to bother with the line. I like to have a /cdrom > line in my /etc/fstab, but don't want it mounted at boot time and would > like to be able to do > > # mount /cdrom > > at some point without having to remember all of the right args. Yes, I > know I could write a little wrapper script to do > > # mount -t XXXfs -r /dev/cd0a /cdrom > > or whatever the right incantation is, but it'd be nice to have that > 'noauto' option. > > Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. > 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 > scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 > Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org >