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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:07:28 -0400
From:      "Gary Chrysler" <tcg@ime.net>
To:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.de>, "Jerry Dunham" <jdunham@fc.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Cd's and filesystems (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199609201452.KAA01209@ime.net>

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Yes Greg, your right, I should have!

-Enjoy
Gary
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> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
> To: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net>
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: Cd's and filesystems (fwd)
> Date: Friday, September 20, 1996 8:23 AM
> 
> Jerry Dunham writes:
> >
> > Gary Chrysler babbled:
> >> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Thu Sep 19 14:50:57
1996
> >>
> >> mount /cdrom
> >> Works for me!
> >
> > Sure doesn't seem to work for me.
> 
> Yes, I think Gary should at least have said *why* it works for him.
> His /etc/fstab file contains something like
> 
> /dev/cd0a			/cdrom		cd9660	ro,noauto 0 0
> 
> When you invoke mount with only argument, it looks in /etc/fstab for
> *either* the first *or* the second field in each line, and if it finds
> a match it fills in the other information by itself.  Have a look: I'm
> sure that you have something there, but it might be the mount point
> /cd0 instead of /cdrom.
> 
> Greg



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