Need to remove references to "nodev" mount option

Ben Kaduk minimarmot at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 01:02:43 UTC 2007


On 8/31/07, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I submitted a patch: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115984
> to remove references to the "nodev" mount option.
>
> "nodev" has been silently ignored since FreeBSD 5, due to the
> introduction of devfs.  In FreeBSD 7, if you try
> "mount -o ndev" or if you have "nodev" in /etc/fstab,
> this will result in a mount failure.
>
> Unfortunately, I am only really proficient in English, so
> I need some help to remove nodev from the following languages:
>
> grep -rl 'nodev' * | sed -e 's/\/.*//g' | sort | uniq
> de_DE.ISO8859-1
> es_ES.ISO8859-1
> fr_FR.ISO8859-1

I wil look at fr_FR.ISO8859-1 this weekend if blackend@ doesn't beat
me to it.  I actually still need to get my FreeBSD box running again
after the move to Massachusetts (I've just been running around with my
trusty ibook instead).

-Ben Kaduk



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