On Fri 01 Mar 2019 at 01:30:47 (-0500), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 2/28/19, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> 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
You've really limited what can be found with that string. For example, you won't find rw,defaults. But the shell makes a more productive search string look like toothpick-hell: $ grep '\(rw\)\|\(defaults\)' /etc/fstab will match lines with either word. Cheers, David.
