From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 07:52:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA22176 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 07:52:21 -0700 Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA22164 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 07:52:17 -0700 Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R2.01/dg-rtp-v02) id AA21934; Wed, 10 May 1995 10:51:34 -0400 Received: from lakes (lakes [192.96.3.39]) by ponds.UUCP (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA04909 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 10:06:19 -0400 Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA10118 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 10 May 1995 10:20:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:20:40 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199505101420.KAA10118@lakes> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: /etc/fstab and mounting CDROMs. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well - I'm setting up some semi-automated things regarding CDROMs, and if the system goes down; I'd like the cdrom automatically mounted. (If a CD isn't in the drive, the mount could simply fail.) So; I added an etry to /etc/fstab like: /dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 r 0 0 from which 'mount' complains: fstab: /etc/fstab:5: Inappropriate file type or format For version 2.1 (or what ever is next) could we consider augmenting /etc/fstab to handle this? Also, how about msdosfs, etc... - Thanks - - Dave R. -