In a message dated: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:33:24 EST
"Ken D'Ambrosio" said:
>On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
>> You want to look at several options. (Hint: "man mount" :-)
>
>I *did* -- honest! mount's manpage is, well, less than explicit with
>regards to the application thereof; I even looked for a "mount" howto, and
>failed, and did a man on fstab, to boot.
from man mount(8):
SYNOPSIS
mount [-lhV]
mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype]
mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir
mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
[...snip...]
-o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a
comma separated string of options. Some of these
options are only useful when they appear in the
/etc/fstab file. The following options apply to
any file system that is being mounted:
[...snip...]
user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file
system. This option implies the options
noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden
by subsequent options, as in the option line
user,exec,dev,suid).
from man fstab(5):
The first field, (fs_spec), describes the block special
device or remote filesystem to be mounted.
The second field, (fs_file), describes the mount point for
the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be
specified as `none'. If the name of the mount point con-
tains spaces these can be escaped as `\040'.
The third field, (fs_vfstype), describes the type of the
filesystem. The system currently supports these types of
filesystems (and possibly others - consult /proc/filesys-
tems):
[...snip...]
The fourth field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options
associated with the filesystem.
The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems
by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need
to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value
of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesys-
tem does not need to be dumped.
The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro-
gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
done at reboot time.
>> Er... "noauto" means "do not mount automatically". :-) Remove it. You
>
>Okay... I'll bite. Of all the config files, there are two that drive me
>insane on a regular basis: the fstab file, and automount. Where, in
>blazes, is there a definitive guide on what flags go where? I've -never-
>found such a beastie, and would pay in blood to get it. (Or beer -- your
>choice, but I'm certainly serious about the beer.) A pointer as simple as
>a file I've overlooked on my local hard drive would be peachy, but I'm yet
>to see same.
Okay, you owe me a beer. :)
I'm going to leave the reading of the automount man pages as an excercise
to the original poster :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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