Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:49:12 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mount(8) can figure out fstype Message-ID: <20070118064912.A39777@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420701180614n3eb5bb6cla6c9fdf9ee6f1a9@mail.gmail.com>; from infofarmer@freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:14:49PM %2B0300 References: <20070118134936.GA7391@crodrigues.org> <cb5206420701180614n3eb5bb6cla6c9fdf9ee6f1a9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:14:49PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/18/07, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> wrote: ... > > One of the pet peeves I have with FreeBSD is that > > if I have a device with a local filesystem that I want to mount, > > I need to explicitly know what type of filesystem is on the > > device in order to mount it from the command-line. ... > > Where this is particularly annoying is if I have multiple > > USB thumb drives with different filesystems on them. ... > > What I would like to do is: > > > > mount /dev/ad0s4 /mnt > > > > and if I do not specify a filesystem type with -t, the mount > > program should "magically" figure out how to mount the disk. > > This is closer to how the mount program behaves on Linux for example. > > > > In this patch, I only modified the userland mount program. ... > 2. "mount -t auto" might be closer to POLA great feature. I probably agree that "mount -t auto" might be a safer way to implement it, but other than that i'd love to have it too. cheers luigi
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