Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:21:52 -0400 From: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net> To: Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net> Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount(1) without /etc/fstab Message-ID: <51F34AE0.8000605@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4Ap21m01Q2X408g01Ap3sn> References: <51EFA71B.1070601@FreeBSD.org> <4Ap21m01Q2X408g01Ap3sn>
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i agree. you should be jailed if you f'up mount so that it ignores fstab figure it out. don't break it. Chris Rees wrote: > On 24 Jul 2013, at 11:06, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> I found behavior of mount(1) rather annoying when there is no /etc/fstab. >> Some systems legitimately do not need (anything in) /etc/fstab, so all of that >> complaining is in vain. >> >> Should mount(1) be silenced in this case? >> Or should we have and install an empty etc/fstab just to please mount(1)? > > I think mount should be silenced. This is a problem that has come up in a couple of ports that complain-- the package building jails don't have fstabs, and we have to work around that. > > Chris
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