Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote:
>> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600): >>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults. >> English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a >> placeholder, unnecessary if >> any other option is specified. Man mount doesn't make it clear to me. I >> can't recall ever including >> it along with any other option. I've always assumed all defaults not >> explicitly overridden will be >> used. > That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just > tried a search for... > "defaults,rw" /etc/fstab > Some things pulled up from varying resources out there. Without > actually visiting any of the results, sometimes they just said the > above. Other times, they would have "defaults,rw" with a few of the > various remaining options tacked on the end of that, as well. To be clear, "including it" above meant an fstab line I created from scratch or any options entry I edited, not any created by any Linux installer. I just checked original fstabs created by Etch (in 2006) Fedora 7 (in 2006) openSUSE 10.3 (in 2007) Squeeze (in 2011) openSUSE 42.1 (in 2015) Bionic (in 2018) Buster (in 2018) on PCs here. Not one contains the string "defaults" adjacent to a comma. I have seen defaults adjacent to a comma in fstab option lines in web searches, mailing lists and forums, but don't know why it ever happens. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/