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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 1995 15:55:27 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   how to specify msdos mount flags in fstab
Message-ID:  <9502232055.AA10895@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199502231023.CAA25490@idiom.com>
References:  <199502231023.CAA25490@idiom.com>

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<<On Thu, 23 Feb 1995 02:23:23 -0800, David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> said:

> SYNOPSIS
>      mount_msdos [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node

> Dumb question: how come that isn't "mount_msdos -o user=uid"?

Because that's not the way mount options work any more.

> As it stands, I don't see how you put the mount options in /etc/fstab.
> Did I miss something obvious?

Yes.

/dev/xxxxx	/msdos	msdos	rw,-u=12369,-g=100	0 0

> Speaking of which, how come there isn't a "noauto" flag?

Hmmm.  Interesting idea.  Probably because there never was one, to my
recollection.  If you want to write the patches to implement it, go
right ahead...

-GAWollman

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