patch to mount(8) to support optional filesystem mounts

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Fri Jan 23 07:59:18 PST 2004


Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Hmm.  Well, a better solution might be to not mount those partitions
>     from /etc/fstab at all but instead mount them in /etc/rc.local, or
>     create a /usr/local/rc.d script, which can do more sophisticated
>     checks to determine which drive you've loaded into the bay.

It may enable more sophisticated setup, but having all mounting potentially
mentioned in only one place - /etc/fstab - might be nice from an
administrative viewpoint.  Plus, that doesn't exclude going to
a /usr/local/rc.d script when a more fancy setup is desired.





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