From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 8:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953AB37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8CFIcY02285; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:18:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unrelated: mountpoints and backup strategies References: <20000911145420.B69890@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 12 Sep 2000 11:18:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org's message of "11 Sep 2000 15:54:38 +0200" Message-ID: <448zsxmyep.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 9 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) writes: > First, for allowing user-mountable filesystems on a single-user system, does > it not make more sense to mount them to points under the user's home > directory rather than having to chmod the ones under /mnt every reboot? Possibly. It also might make sense, depending on how the machines are used, to have a single mountpoint and use fbtab or the X_setup script to batter the mountpoint into the user's ownership on every console login. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message