On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:26:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 3 12:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:19:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >Do you think that / should be free as today: >> > >> > C:\arbitrary\useless\new\path / ntfs binary 0 0 >> > >> >or do you think an automatic approach as the above >> > >> > root / ntfs binary 0 0 >> > >> >is the way to go? As for cygdrives, isn't the >> > >> > cygdrive /mnt auto binary 0 0 >> > >> >already along the lines of an automount?!? >> >> "auto" in /etc/fstab doesn't mean "automount". It means that it is >> meant to be "auto"matically mounted at "boot time". That's fine for /, >> /bin, /usr/bin. >> It isn't fine for z: where z: is a usb device. > >Uh, that's something I didn't look for. I just used the word "auto" >because it sounded nice at this point. Actually the third field >is ignored. The important part is the "cygdrive" in the first field, >which is along the lines of, say, "proc" or "sysfs" in Linux. We >don't have a reason (so far) to care for the FS type field in fstab.
But if we were doing this the "right way" then I think we probably should have a procfs and something else which allowed the automatic mounting of devices like floppies or usb disks. cgf
