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It would be nice on some systems to break up one big fstab file and replace it with an fstab file "including" other files.

Also it would be nice to mount things from a secondary "fstab" file relative to some directory.

So as an example (of the offset, or relative mount), imagine you have a line in the fstab file:

#include foobar.fstab offset=/external_mount

in foobar I specify two file systems that are mounted on /foo and /bar. Through the use of the fstab, they are instead mounted on /external_mount/foo and /external_mount/bar.

Is there an equivalent mechanism to do this?

Thomas Dickey
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Mouse.The.Lucky.Dog
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  • The other question only answers about 60% of this question. The first is that a single include line for a file works better when often wanting to include or not include filesystems. For example if you remove a hd it is easier to comment out then to move a file. The other is the relative mount which is not addressed by that question at all. – Mouse.The.Lucky.Dog Jun 17 '14 at 18:47

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