From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 1:32:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C7D37BDF9 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:32:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat54.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.246]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA18858; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:32:06 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA26244; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:55:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:55:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mark Ovens Cc: Chip , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount drives and fstab Message-ID: <20000328115548.A24780@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <00032521362000.00344@chip.homenet> <20000327200422.A1015@hades.hell.gr> <20000327232501.C233@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000327232501.C233@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:25:01PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:04:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > There is *no* 'auto' option, as far as I can tell from fstab(5) manpage. > > Try creating different mount points. For instance I use: > > The fstab(5) manpage does say to see the ``-o'' option in the mount(8) > manpage for option details and that lists ``noauto'' which implies > that auto is the default although it doesn't (can't?) be used > explicitly (it actually says that ``noauto'' causes ``mount -a'' to > skip that entry). Sysinstall adds it for floppies and CD-ROM: > > /dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Uhm, my silliness. I overlooked noauto in my search, and both auto and noauto are acceptable as options (tried it a few minutes ago). Don't know what I had been drinking. Perhaps I meant that an `auto' option, that auto-detects filesystem type does not exist. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr> See the headers of this message for my public key fingeprint. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message