Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 07:14:26 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: simon@masi.ibp.fr Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch adding the 'noauto' switch to 'mount' Message-ID: <199508071414.HAA00196@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 95 14:09:31 %2B0200." <199508071209.OAA00200@neuromancer.ibp.fr>
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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? -DG
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