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Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount' 
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 08:17:02 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>   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?
>
>-DG

So he can say "mount /dos" instead of "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s2 /dos".
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Justin T. Gibbs
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  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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