We can take mounting a step farther.
All hard drives and partitions will be recognized at boot time by the kernel
every partition in FStab will be mounted accordingly
the rest will be mounted on /b /c /d and so on...
very easy for newbies, who will the have access to all their
drives/partitions in a manner they are used to (b: and cd b are not too
different), and therefore wouldn't need to know mount (lots of tech-support
I've given was related to the mount thing) and it sounds easy to
implement...
Just my 0.2NIS...
Chen Shapira
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Omer Efraim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 9:56 PM
> To: Ira Abramov
> Cc: What do you want to do tommorow?
> Subject: Re: Supermount
>
>
> AFAIK, the reason it was not included in other distributions
> is that it had problems with umounting and some specific CD devices.
>
> It's supposedly fixed now, but since RedHat (as an example
> of a very much mainstream packager and distributer) is pushing a new
> automounter of their own (daemon based, though - not kernel,
> magicdev),
> I guess they'll wait till it hits the stable tree. SuSE
>
> Ira Abramov wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> >
> > > one more cool feature in Mandrake 7 is supermount. a no-daemon,
> > > single-mountpoint automounter, that appears as an option in the
> > > fstab. very sinply lets you cd into a directory and use
> it w/o mounting,
> > > but the mountpoint doesn't disappear and the umount is
> immediate (no 60
> > > second timeouts etc, eject the CD immediately). this is a
> major feature
> > > for easier use for newbies I believe.
> >
> > WTF? I just searched, and apperently this has been around since
> > 95... anyone knows why it was not featured in any
> distribution before?
> >
> >
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue01to08/linux_gazette.nov.html#supermount
>
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