On 02/14/14 15:42, Phillip Susi wrote: > > You are looking at it backwards. It increases the probability of > running into an *undiagnosed* error, which is much worse than running > into an error because you made a simple mistake. In other words, if > you specify the wrong mount point by accident, you want mount to tell > you that you messed up. >
This is just 50% of the story. Since mount cannot create mount points, you have to enter the directory name _twice_ (/etc/fstab and on the mkdir command), giving you twice the probability to introduce a typo, plus the probability to forget one step. Not to mention that some file systems are empty by default (e.g. tmpfs used for /run and some subdirs). How about a command option to tell mount to create missing dirs? The default behavior would be unchanged. Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
