mount(1) without /etc/fstab

John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell johnandsara2 at cox.net
Sat Jul 27 04:17:00 UTC 2013


i agree.  you should be jailed if you f'up mount so that it ignores fstab

figure it out.  don't break it.

Chris Rees wrote:
> On 24 Jul 2013, at 11:06, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>> I found behavior of mount(1) rather annoying when there is no /etc/fstab.
>> Some systems legitimately do not need (anything in) /etc/fstab, so all of that
>> complaining is in vain.
>>
>> Should mount(1) be silenced in this case?
>> Or should we have and install an empty etc/fstab just to please mount(1)?
> 
> I think mount should be silenced.  This is a problem that has come up in a couple of ports that complain-- the package building jails don't have fstabs, and we have to work around that.
> 
> Chris



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