Subject: Re: mount checking disklabel for filesystem types
To: None <tech-misc@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 09/24/2000 19:50:50
In article <Pine.NEB.4.21.0009152317590.448-100000@odysseus.mono.org>,
 <abs@purplei.com> wrote:

> 	Having to type 'mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt' rather than
> 		       'mount /dev/cd0a /mnt' always annoys me :)
> 
> 	The diffs to have mount check disklabel for a filesystem type
> 	_only_ in the case where both device and mountpoint are specified
> 	without -t are quite small - attached below.
> 
> 	Is there any reason why something like this isn't in the
> 	tree, and if not, does the following look reasonable?
> 
> 		David/absolute
> 				       -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --

Looks reasonable to me as long as you can override it with -t ...

christos