On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:00:49 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:31:10 -0600 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > In any case, /etc/fstab is for *static* file systems. It is *not* for > > file systems that may or may not be there when the system is booting (or > > otherwise in operation). > > Please substantiate this assertion with some documentation. The > manpage just mentions "static information about the filesystems" - I see > nothing that implies that it "is *not* for file systems that may or may > not be there when the system is booting".
If the file system may or may not be there, the information about the file system is not *static* (unchanging). Because the answer is sometimes "/dev/some/thing/or/other" and sometimes the answer is NULL and errno is set to ENOENT (No such file or directory). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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