Package: mount
Version: 2.12p-4
Severity: wishlist

Idea: allow macros in /etc/fstab, like make(1)'s most basic macro,
so instead of wrappingly hard to maintain long lines:

/dev/sda /mnt/usb/floppy vfat 
noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/sm vfat 
noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/pqi vfat 
noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/cf vfat 
noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb/sd vfat 
noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0

one could just write

K=vfat noauto,noatime,user,umask=0,posix,shortname=mixed,iocharset=cp950 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/usb/floppy $K
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/sm $K
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/pqi $K
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/cf $K
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb/sd $K

Please forward this bug to "the upstream maintainer of /etc/fstab".


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