Nothing special about Linux or about zLinux regarding /etc/fstab.
I think several have simply omitted details when trying to answer this
question.
#1, YES, you can mount smb via /etc/fstab (and not only manually)
#2, NO, there is no difference between /etc/fstab on zLinux
and other Linux
/dev/to/mount /place/to/mount/it type options backuppass checkpass
-- Rick; <><
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Erik N Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm confused by this thread. Is there a special behaviour of fstab
> specific to z/Linux? On every other UNIX or UNIX-clone system I have
> ever used including Linux on the x86 and powerpc platforms, the two
> integer values at the end of an fstab config line have nothing
> whatever to do with automatic mounting.
>
> instead, all entries are automatically mounted at boot unless the
> NOAUTO keyword is given.
>
> the numbers, as best I understand, represent the following:
> field 5 (first integer field) specifies a dump frequency. for more
> info see man -s8 dump
> field 6 (second integer field) specifies fsck order.
> this is very very simple
> a value of zero means "do not examine this volume on boot"
> a value of one means "this volume must be checked first" this option
> should be used only for the root filesystem
> a value of two means "this volume may be checked at any time
> subsequent to the root volume" typically this means that logical
> volumes on the same physical volume are checked in series, volumes on
> distinct physical hardware will be checked concurrently, obviously
> because of hardware constraints. afaik it is possible to specify
> values >2 which would then indicate, these volumes should be checked
> only after all volumes with an fs-check value of 2, and so on and so
> forth.
>
> Please, if I am in some way in error, somebody let me know! I'd hate
> to discover that my *nix boxen were doing bizarre things at boot up.
> I can tell you this though, all my volumes mount at boot except for
> optical drives and one nfs mount (specifically /usr/home on my
> fileserver which automounts on my Linux and BSD boxen but not on my
> Mac, I do have an fstab entry on my mac, bearing the noauto keyword,
> as well as an fs-check value of zero (there should be no need to fsck
> network mounts as they are checked when the providing host boots. I
> don't even know if fsck works at all on network filesystems, as I
> believe it bypasses the typical VFS abstraction and works on the
> physical hardware directly.)
>
> Again, if I am in error, please let me know!
>
> Erik Johnson
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Scott Rohling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Works fine from /etc/fstab.. just use the same format as the mount (not
>> sure what the colon was about):
>>
>> //192.168.20.2/Media /Media smbfs ro, blah blah
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Mark D Vandale <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Can smbfs be mounted from /etc/fstab ? I can issue the cmd "mount -f
>>> smbfs //ipaddress/dirname /dirname username=testid,password=testpw" and
>>> get the smbfs mounted but I can't get this mounted by adding a line in
>>> the /etc/fstab . The format in the /etc/fstab is more like -->
>>> //ipadress:/dirname /dirname smbfs ro,username=testid,password=testpw 0
>>> 0 Is this possible from /etc/fstab or do I need to do this from somewhere
>>> else ? This is SUSE SLES10.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
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