On Monday 11 October 2010 07:56:17 [email protected] wrote:
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> >From : [email protected][mailto:[email protected]]
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> Sent : 10/10/2010 11:12:48 AM
> To : [email protected]
> Cc :
> Subject : FW: Re: FW: Re: "auto" in /etc/fstab
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> On 10/10/2010 01:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > From : Bruce Dubbs[ mailto:[email protected] ]
> > Sent : 10/9/2010 7:36:52 PM
> > To : [email protected]
> > Cc :
> > Subject : FW: Re: "auto" in /etc/fstab
> >
> > If you know what the filesystem is, there is no reason not to specify it.
> >
> > -- Bruce
>
> I recently restored an imaged partition to a different file system. Had
> I listed its file type as "auto" in /etc/fstab ...
>
> Even if I know what the file system is, I see no reason to specify it.
Binutils are getting better at recognizing a filesystem and loading its
module(s) as needed before mounting it; it wasn't always thus. Regardless of
that, there are two consumers of /etc/fstab: the computer, and the admin; it
needs to be computer parsable and human grokable. I'll side more with Bruce
on this one. (1) Fstab is where I usually 'document' which partitions have
which filesystems. (2) I sometimes need to specify mount options; NTFS
options don't work with reiserFS and reiserFS options don't work with vfat,
etc. (3) Even if I know what the FS is, there's no guarantee I'll remember it
in 6 months.
Something like the following works well enough for me. Depending on the FS, a
partition will be mounted on different dirs and/or have different mount
options:
/dev/sdh1 /mnt ntfs-3g rw,user,noauto,allow_other,default_permissions,\
umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=111 0 0
/dev/sdh1 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto
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