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Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)



On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:00:49 Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:31:10 -0600
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@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).
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