Re: quot;autoquot; in /etc/fstab
--- Original Message --- From: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com[mailto:rhubarbpie...@gmail.com] Sent: 10/10/2010 11:12:48 AM To : rhubarb...@poetworld.net Cc : Subject : FW: Re: FW: Re: auto in /etc/fstab On 10/10/2010 01:05 PM, rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote: --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Dubbs[ mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com ] Sent: 10/9/2010 7:36:52 PM To : lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org 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. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: quot;autoquot; in /etc/fstab
On Monday 11 October 2010 07:56:17 rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote: --- Original Message --- From: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com[mailto:rhubarbpie...@gmail.com] Sent: 10/10/2010 11:12:48 AM To : rhubarb...@poetworld.net Cc : Subject : FW: Re: FW: Re: auto in /etc/fstab On 10/10/2010 01:05 PM, rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote: --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Dubbs[ mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com ] Sent: 10/9/2010 7:36:52 PM To : lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org 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 /mntntfs-3g rw,user,noauto,allow_other,default_permissions,\ umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=111 0 0 /dev/sdh1 /media/usb1 autorw,user,noauto -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: quot;autoquot; in /etc/fstab
On 10/11/2010 08:39 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: 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 /mntntfs-3g rw,user,noauto,allow_other,default_permissions,\ umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=111 0 0 /dev/sdh1 /media/usb1 autorw,user,noauto Thank you for responding. I'd thought of the documentation argument. However, even though I have auto for each partition in my /etc/fstab, mount or df -T tells me the file system type. True, that doesn't apply to the / partition, but that's not a problem for me. Jonathan suggested auto isn't a good idea with network drives. I'll buy that. Your /etc/fstab example is good. I used something similar, but less sophisticated, before I began using auto. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
