Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: "mount -a -t nfs" problems found and solved Message-ID: <8008@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:14:32 GMT References: <89Sep26.001054edt.30815@snow.white.toronto.edu> <8003@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 14 In article <8003@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: > On nice thing that crept in somewhere around 3.0 is you can put something > like xx in the rw/ro/sw field and have most of the programs cooperate - > mount -a doesn't mess with it, but an explict mount by file system name > works as does df. Too bad it's not documented or 100% consistant across > programs that can access /etc/fstab... Oops, it is documented - maybe I need to do a global diff on man pages and find out what's really new or different... 8-) -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)