Uh, uh -- no beer. You explained what the *fields* do; I want to know
what *flags* to put in said fields. Errr... I stand^H^H^H^Hit corrected.
I'll attempt to weasel out by saying that the manpages on my older RH
system aren't comprehensive for automount, but the manpages on the
Mandrake 7.2 system I just installed have full manpages for both mount and
automount. Damn. I guess I'll have to start perusing different
distributions' manpages now, to see who's got the best. Or is there a
common repository in some mythical Avalon for The Latest manpages for
Linux? Anyway, Paul, what's your favorite beer? Time to pay the price of
not trying hard 'nuff... (Damn -- there's even ldap info on the automount
manpage... that's Just Cool -- wish that HPUX did that; it'd sure make my
life easier.)
-Ken
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> In a message dated: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:33:24 EST
> "Ken D'Ambrosio" said:
>
> >On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> >
> >> You want to look at several options. (Hint: "man mount" :-)
> >
> >I *did* -- honest! mount's manpage is, well, less than explicit with
> >regards to the application thereof; I even looked for a "mount" howto, and
> >failed, and did a man on fstab, to boot.
>
> from man mount(8):
>
> SYNOPSIS
> mount [-lhV]
>
> mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype]
> mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir
> mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
>
> [...snip...]
>
> -o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a
> comma separated string of options. Some of these
> options are only useful when they appear in the
> /etc/fstab file. The following options apply to
> any file system that is being mounted:
> [...snip...]
> user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file
> system. This option implies the options
> noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden
> by subsequent options, as in the option line
> user,exec,dev,suid).
>
> from man fstab(5):
>
> The first field, (fs_spec), describes the block special
> device or remote filesystem to be mounted.
>
>
> The second field, (fs_file), describes the mount point for
> the filesystem. For swap partitions, this field should be
> specified as `none'. If the name of the mount point con-
> tains spaces these can be escaped as `\040'.
>
> The third field, (fs_vfstype), describes the type of the
> filesystem. The system currently supports these types of
> filesystems (and possibly others - consult /proc/filesys-
> tems):
> [...snip...]
> The fourth field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options
> associated with the filesystem.
>
> The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems
> by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need
> to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value
> of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesys-
> tem does not need to be dumped.
>
> The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro-
> gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
> done at reboot time.
>
> >> Er... "noauto" means "do not mount automatically". :-) Remove it. You
> >
> >Okay... I'll bite. Of all the config files, there are two that drive me
> >insane on a regular basis: the fstab file, and automount. Where, in
> >blazes, is there a definitive guide on what flags go where? I've -never-
> >found such a beastie, and would pay in blood to get it. (Or beer -- your
> >choice, but I'm certainly serious about the beer.) A pointer as simple as
> >a file I've overlooked on my local hard drive would be peachy, but I'm yet
> >to see same.
>
> Okay, you owe me a beer. :)
>
> I'm going to leave the reading of the automount man pages as an excercise
> to the original poster :)
>
>
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