On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 05:30, ghe2001 <ghe2...@pm.me> wrote: > The fstab: > # <file system> <mount point> <type> > <options> <dump> <pass>
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 08:00, ghe2001 <ghe2...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'. > > > > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0 > > Well, damned if it didn't work. And I had all of my non-root fstab entries > with singular defaults too. Thanks vastly, David. The only reason to that <options>=defaults exists is so that a non-default value can be specified for either <dump> or <pass>, while not specifying any non-default <options>. Because there can't be a fifth or sixth column unless there is also a fourth column. "defaults" is just a dummy value for the fourth column. Using "defaults 0 0" is specifying default value for all three of <options>, <dump>, and <pass>. In that situation, they can all be omitted.
