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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!msgi.com!msgi.com!not-for-mail From: gryphon@msgi.com (Coranth Gryphon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1 Date: 13 Jun 1995 12:52:16 -0400 Organization: MSG, Inc. (Burlington, MA) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3rkfo0$ke2@hydra.msgi.com> References: <3r6rh4$64v@oz.plymouth.edu> <3rh7k3$mcb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3rhn7o$2d2@rover.village.org> <3rjqhb$sm6@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.msgi.com In article <3rjqhb$sm6@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >>Too bad there's no way to put the stuff in your /etc/fstab w/o having >>it mounted on boot. > I just have the /etc/rc file mount the drive types that I want (it could even mount just the partitions if you're picky) rather than "-a". That lets me define lots of nfs mounts, the cdrom, the floppy, the tape drive, in /etc/fstab and not have to worry about them being automounted at boot time. -coranth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> MSG, Inc. Phone: (617) 272-8665 20 Blanchard Road, #11 FAX: (617) 272-0397 Burlington, MA 01803-5168 ---------------------------------------------------+----------------------- Programmer: "If I build it, they will come..." | #include <disclaim.h> Manager: "If I sell it, THEN you'll build it." | #include <sys/quote.h> ---------------------------------------------------+-----------------------