On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 07:59 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > I have a Freecom network disk which needs the following to be executed > > before I can mount it using an entry in /etc/fstab :- > > > > echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled > > > > Is there any neat way I can get this command executed during the boot > > sequence before the entries in /etc/fstab are mounted? > > > sysctl (/etc/sysctl.conf) might do this. No, that only futzes with stuff under /proc/sys, not /proc/fs. The other filesystems are mounted by line 95 in /etc/rc.d/init.d/netfs. So, stuff that line just before it: echo 0 >/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled action $"Mounting other filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,nfs4,smbfs,cifs,ncpfs,gfs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Polygon: A dead parrot (With apologies to John Cleese) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------