Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:00:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Lennon Cook <maguswizardo@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: auto-guessing filesystems Message-ID: <20060724110044.GA74295@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <76ebe6440607240056s7b227349yba13bddb2a3ccff@mail.gmail.com> References: <76ebe6440607240056s7b227349yba13bddb2a3ccff@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2006-07-24 17:56, Lennon Cook <maguswizardo@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been looking over the tutorial for automounting removable > devices at http://www.caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ , and have > come to one interesting point. It has the fstab line: > > /dev/da0 /mnt/usbflash auto noauto 0 0 > > However, my system doesn't appear to support 'auto' as an fstype. I > assume that it would guess the filesystem type ala Linux, which is > about the only thing I miss about the mount system there. Can this > actually be made to work easily on FreeBSD, or is this tutorial using > an untested fstab entry? AFAIK, FreeBSD does not support filesystem autodetection. There was a discussion recently, in one of the FreeBSD lists, but I couldn't easily find a pointer to the relevant thread.
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