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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 06:46:27 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Subject: Re: request: change mount behaviour
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"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I am sure that this was discussed, I didn't searched the archives, but
> I want to make this request (again if it is so):
> 
> Change the default mount behaviour to create binmode user mounts
> if called without options.
> Example:
> $ mount C:/some/drive /mydrive
> should create a binmode user mount vs textmode user mount as it is now.
> The flag -b isn't needed then and could be substituted with -t to force
> mount to create textmode mounts.
> 
> So we will get less 'accidently' created textmode mounts which leads to
> less questions about this issue on the list (I hope so).
> 

IMO, this change is needed to match the setup default.

Earnie.

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