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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:48:34 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> I thought /fstab was just if you wanted it mounted permanently (every time 
> you boot linux).  I use aliases, for instance A - mount /dev/fd0 /fd.
> I had the DOS partition mounted via fstab for a while but searches took 
> longer that way.

   I also ran across that problem, e.g. when doing F-Prot anti-virus scans.
The way I fixed it was to write scripts to un-mount all DOS partitions, and 
to re-mount
the same when I need to access the DOS partitions again.

Regards,
         Ron

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