Re: Can't type fast!!

["Liton" <leyton@example.com>]

Hi Viktor Pavlenko,

Could you please tell me how to have proper entry in 
/etc/fstab? Please try to reply in plain English. 
Thank you.

Liton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Viktor Pavlenko" <vp@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Can't type fast!!


> >>>>> "L" == Liton  <leyton@example.com> writes:
> 
>     L> Hi,
>     L> Everytime I use my cdrom drive I need to type
>     L> "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom". Is there 
>     L> any shorter way to do this? Thanks in advance.
> 
> If you have a proper entry in /etc/fstab something like
> 
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
> 
> then just `mount /mnt/cdrom' will work. Alternatively (or
> additionally), you can set an alias
> 
> $ alias mm='mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom'
> 
> and then just type `mm' to execute the command. If you like the alias
> thing, put it in your shell init file, .bashrc.
> 
> Viktor
> 
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