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Re: fstab usb entries



On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 20:46, Gabriele Persia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In /etc/fstab I have the line:
> usbdevfs        /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs        defaults,noauto 0       0
> 
> when I mount usbdevfs I can get info about the usb bus, good.
> 
> Now, I've upgraded the libusb package and the configuration script
> suggest to add
> none           /proc/bus/usb   usbfs           defaults        0       0
> to the fstab file.
> 
> Do I really need it ?
> Is it worth to add the line?
> (libusb should work even without it, because /dev/bus/usb is available)
> 

They do exactly the same thing. The first entry is the file system and
in this case you can use either none or usbdevfs (its a virtual file
system).
So the answer is you only need one of them doesn't matter which.

> 
> Any suggestion is welcome.
> Gabriele Persia.
-- 
Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il



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