The whole idea for changing the content came from the fact that my usb
drives were mounting as read-only for non-root users, so I tried to fix it
and no luck. So at the end I removed my entries for removable media.
I still have that very problem of read-only removable media for my user.

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 18:26:58 +0330
> Mostafa Shahverdy <most...@mostafa.info> wrote:
>
> > Maybe this is something with my /etc/fstab? because I tried to change
> > the content. Right now there is no entry for my USB disk there.
>
> On the whole, there is no need for entries for removable media
> in /etc/fstab, unless you have some really specific need. The wretched
> systemd handles automounting of removable drives in a per-user
> directory.
>
> If you do put removable media entries in /etc/fstab, you need to put
> nofail among the options, or else boot will fail when they are not
> present (my first-ever systemd gotcha).
>
> --
> Joe
>
>

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