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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS mount problems
Date: 9 Jul 1996 06:37:11 GMT
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brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote:

> "mount -t xxx -o yyy" is implemented by running "mount_xxx yyy".  This
> isn't necessarily standard (and IMO should be hidden better... maybe
> in a directory called /sbin/mount ?

That's a bit hard, since /sbin/mount is already the binary itself. :)

/usr/libexec/mount/ might be a good place except that you potentially
need it in the root f/s.  Anyway, /sbin/mount_foo (or /etc/mount_foo)
is the traditional naming, not only for FreeBSD.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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