Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:12:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> To: davidg@root.com Cc: simon@masi.ibp.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount' Message-ID: <199508071512.LAA27678@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199508071414.HAA00196@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Aug 7, 95 07:14:26 am
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> >I just got fed up with my DOS partition being mounted automatically
> >at boot time, so I wrote a patch which enables the use of the 'noauto'
> >flag in /etc/fstab.
> >
> >For example: /dev/sd0s2 /dos msdos rw,noauto 0 0
> >
> >This flag prevents a filesystem from being mounted when a 'mount -a' occurs.
> >It works for every kind of fs , since it's defined as a standard
> >mount option.
>
> That's an interesting option, but the "-a" switch stands for "all" - not
> "auto". I suppose the first question that comes to mind is: if you don't want
> the filesystem mounted with "-a", then why are you putting it in fstab?
This is a _very_ nice option to have and it is about time... Think about it
this way...
having things like
/dev/fd0a /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/cd0a /cdrom iso9660 rw,noauto 0 0
as well as
> >For example: /dev/sd0s2 /dos msdos rw,noauto 0 0
then all you have to do is:
mount /cdrom
or
mount /floppy
Please incorperate this one guys...
-branson
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