On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 17:31, Steve Holdoway wrote: > No, don't change any of there. However, I think *everybody* would be > happier if you posted the output from either mount or df. > > Cheers, > > Steve
As you can see below, mount and df show that sda4 is not mounted until I type mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/share/ ...so WHY can't I have a line like mine in fstab? /dev/sda4 /mnt/share ext3 notail,noatime,umask=000 0 0 beast root # mount /dev/sda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/bak type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) beast root # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 146476164 31877916 114598248 22% / /dev/hdb1 78145768 20574904 57570864 27% /mnt/bak none 451992 0 451992 0% /dev/shm beast root # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/share/ beast root # mount /dev/sda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/bak type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda4 on /mnt/share type ext3 (rw) beast root # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 146476164 31877924 114598240 22% / /dev/hdb1 78145768 20574904 57570864 27% /mnt/bak none 451992 0 451992 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda4 46094648 32828 43720348 1% /mnt/share -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) www.fisher.net.nz BOFH Excuse #334: 50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files
