Re: OpenBSD's /etc/fstab

["STeve Andre'" <andres_(_at_)_msu_(_dot_)_edu>]

As an aside to this discussion, I will point out that if you use
DOS floppies a lot the mtools package is pretty nice to
have installed.  mdir does an ls, mcopy does a cp, etc.

With them I haven't needed to speficially mount floppies
much.

--STeve Andre'

On Thursday 17 April 2003 21:07, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting yoshinari nomura (nomura_(_at_)_kinya_(_dot_)_com):
> > Yes, I DID read man page.
>
> Thats always good.
>
> > My question was NOT about how to mount floppy disks.
> > If there is no such thing as mount_auto, it's fine.
> > I was just wondering if there is any way to make OpenBSD
> > detect file systems automatically like Linux does.
>
> Is there a way?  sure. it involves likely porting the code
> or implementing code that can 'tell' what the FS is.  then
> getting that into a mount_something program that will be called
> an spawn off the appropriate mount.
>
> Can (any)BSD do it right now?  No.  Not that I've see on net/free/open.
>
> /dev/fd0a   /floppy/dos   msdos    rw,nosuid,noauto   0 0
> /dev/fd0a   /floppy/ext2  ext2fs   rw,nosuid,noauto   0 0
> /dev/fd0a   /floppy/ffs   ffs      rw,nosuid,noauto   0 0
>
> If you type "mount /floppy/dos" it will mount it as dos.
>
> I can't really test this, I have no floppy drives connected to anything.