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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:04:23 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can an ISO file be mounted from /etc/fstab at boot?
Message-ID:  <44r4jgv394.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <CACxnZKMC05-PFF3yVKaOhs3gV5gt611sg8jbebWOiKyTJUD%2Bzg@mail.gmail.com> (Oscar Hodgson's message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:18:55 -0400")
References:  <CACxnZKMC05-PFF3yVKaOhs3gV5gt611sg8jbebWOiKyTJUD%2Bzg@mail.gmail.com>

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Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the answer is "no, just write a local rc script to do
> that", but thought I'd check.
>
> Can't see any hint of that capability in the handbook or fstab(5).
>
> Really just looking for a single point of management for file systems ....

I don't see a way offhand. You need to do the mdconfig before you can
mount, and I don't think that can be done inside of fstab. 

I think that adding such a capability to mount(8) as a program option
would be a fairly minor hack.



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