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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!news.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1 Date: 12 Jun 1995 09:41:44 -0600 Organization: The Village Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3rhn7o$2d2@rover.village.org> References: <3r6rh4$64v@oz.plymouth.edu> <3r7888$280@germany.eu.net> <3r80ka$bun@iii1.iii.net> <3rh7k3$mcb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org In article <3rh7k3$mcb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >/etc/fstab) seems interesting, but seriously, i much prefer my own >suid Perl script to say something like: > > do-mount cd > do-mount floppy > >instead of > > mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/cd0a /cdrom > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy I have /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw 0 0 in my /etc/fstab. and just do sudo mount /cdrom sudo mount /floppy which isn't so bad :-). I've been doing this on FreeBSD since about the 1.0Rish days (might have been 1.1R). I don't think it is a FreeBSD or Linux thing, since I've done the same thing on SunOS for years (think NFS). Too bad there's no way to put the stuff in your /etc/fstab w/o having it mounted on boot. There is also the automounter solution, but I've had mondo bad luck with "automount" "amd" and "vold". Warner -- Warner Losh "VMS Forever" home: imp@village.org Cyberspace Development, Inc work: imp@marketplace.com Makers of TIA, The Internet Adapter. http://marketplace.com/