Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:43:04 +0000 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can an ISO file be mounted from /etc/fstab at boot? Message-ID: <20130318124303.GA51760@eris.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <44r4jgv394.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <CACxnZKMC05-PFF3yVKaOhs3gV5gt611sg8jbebWOiKyTJUD%2Bzg@mail.gmail.com> <44r4jgv394.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:04:23PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert typed: > 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. If it was a standard (UFS) filesystem image (not ISO9600) it would be possible to mount from fstab with something like this: /dev/md0 /data/mfs mfs rw,-PF/path/to/some.img,async 0 0 Ruben
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