On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:36:11PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > Imho the semantics of -a in mount should be changed accordingly to the
> > > one of umount.
> > 
> > 	Please do not do this . You could set them not noauto and 'mount
> > 	-vat nonfs' to avoid hitting them in startup.
> 
> > 
> > 	I would fully support having a different flag that implies
> > 	'include type type noauto' in current operation :)
> 
> 
> I thought of this too. But then again, the semantic of "-a" is 
> different in mount and umount.

"umount -a" uses getmntinfo() to get a list of all mounted
filesystems. It doesn't look in fstab at all.