Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 09:26:27 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: simon@masi.ibp.fr, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount' Message-ID: <199508071526.JAA15016@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199508071414.HAA00196@corbin.Root.COM> References: <199508071209.OAA00200@neuromancer.ibp.fr> <199508071414.HAA00196@corbin.Root.COM>
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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? So you don't have to specify the complete command line parameters when you *really* want it mounted. SunOS has this, and I use it all the time with the cdrom. Instead of saying 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom' I can say 'mount /cdrom'. It will only mount the fs with an explicit mount, rather than the 'mount -a' command. I think it's a nice feature to have. Nate
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