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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: fstab-like file?
Message-ID: <54482@sun.uucp>
Date: 25 May 88 17:16:26 GMT
References: <10197@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3848@cbmvax.UUCP> <10247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3864@cbmvax.UUCP>
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In article <3864@cbmvax.UUCP> (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) writes:
>In article <10247@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> (Mike Meyer) writes:
>>
>>I'm keeping the hard disk names (in Mountlist) as "device" names: dh0,
>>dh1, etc. I use the "name" argument to format as the "name" of the
>>device. Normally, I can't use that name until I do something on the
>>device in question, after the mount. I'd like something to fix that,
>>so that I can start using the name I fed format after the mount
>>immmediately. 
>
>How about logical assignments.  That's what I use.  I used to have my
>hard drive as one normal fs partition.  It was assigned the logical H:.
>(assign H: dh0:)

[Note: I may not understand what Mike wants either but I do know how the
 /etc/fstab file works under UNIX]

Logical assignments won't work. Because what Mike is referring to in
his posting is the 'fstab' file. One Sun's at least (and I believe most
BSD derived UNIXes) there is this file that contains the mount options
and _where to mount the filesystem_. This would be equivalent to 
having a 'default assignment' in the Mountlist file. Thus if your
mountlist looked like :
DH1:       Device = harddisk.device
           Unit   = 2
           Flags  = 1
           Surfaces  = 6
           BlocksPerTrack = 26
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 611
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 5
#

You could add a line :
	   Assign = Sources

And the CLI user could use the command :
1> Mount sources

And it would mount this device and make the Sources assignment to it
if the volume label wasn't already 'sources:'. 

Basically, you want to refer to a volume by 'name' before it is mounted
and AmigaDOS doesn't do this yet.


--Chuck McManis
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