Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 24 iun 20, 19:07:40, Anders Andersson wrote: > I agree, but documentation doesn't seem to have high priority in > debian, it's a cultural issue. For example, in OpenBSD a developer > never changes anything without also making sure that the documentation > everywhere is up to date. It's becom

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread Anders Andersson
I agree, but documentation doesn't seem to have high priority in debian, it's a cultural issue. For example, in OpenBSD a developer never changes anything without also making sure that the documentation everywhere is up to date. It's become part of the mindset. Yesterday I tried to learn about how

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Jun 2020 at 09:32:53 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > > """ > > Dear Installer Team, > > > > Please consider adding words informing users they should run > > "systemctl daemon-reload" after changing

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread songbird
Anders Andersson wrote: ... > A while back I started writing custom systemd unit files for mounts > and such, but now I've reverted back to using /etc/fstab directly for > most things and then possibly just dropping in custom extra options in > /etc/systemd/system/ if necessary. I did that because

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-24 Thread Anders Andersson
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:17 AM David wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed a new bug report [1]: > """ > Dear Installer Team, > > Please consider adding words informing users they should run > "systemctl daemon-reload" after changing /etc/fstab. > > With stale mount units from an older /etc/fstab, us

Re: Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-23 Thread David
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:16, David wrote: > Anyway I was not aware of this so I thought to share it here. > Further information is welcome, if you have any. Well, it appears there is more info out there if you know to look for it. For example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/477794/ho

Be careful when editing /etc/fstab

2020-06-23 Thread David
Hi, I just noticed a new bug report [1]: """ Dear Installer Team, Please consider adding words informing users they should run "systemctl daemon-reload" after changing /etc/fstab. With stale mount units from an older /etc/fstab, users might observe "interesting surprises", f.e. systemd might umo