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 /mnt ntfs-3g rw,user,noauto,allow_other,default_permissions,\ > umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=111 0 0 > /dev/sdh1 /media/usb1 auto rw,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
