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From: Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount'
To: davidg@root.com
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 11:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: simon@masi.ibp.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
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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