xfmountdev on FreeBSD

Jasper Huijsmans j.b.huijsmans at hetnet.nl
Wed May 1 11:43:59 CEST 2002


Just out of curiosity, why don't you use /etc/fstab to allow users to mount 
disks. That's much easier with mount execution permissions, isn't it?

Jasper

At 11:00 AM 5/1/02, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:21:34 -0700 (PDT)
>manny rosa <manny_robot_freak at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have xfmountdev use specific
> > arguments? For example, under FreeBSD, I have it setup
> > so that users can mount filesystems (floppy and
> > cdroms) on a mountpoint they own, like
> > /home/me/floppy. This is the command I need to mount
> > floppies
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /home/me/floppy
> >
> > I know that under linux is the fstab is setup right
> > it's a matter of mount /mnt/floppy. So my real
> > question is... is it possible to send arguments to the
> > mount command along with the mount point to
> > xfmountdev?
> > I'm running XFce 3.8.14.
>
>xfmountdev is a bash script; so if you want to you can alter it the way 
>you like
>at this moment it only looks for one parameter ($1), so the real awnser to 
>your question:
>no.
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