editing fstab file ??

[Jose Rafael Carrero Leon]

yes, it should work


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:16:17 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:17:55 +0000, James Wilkinson
> <james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > spamse wrote:
> > > Also, I added a line to /etc/fstab to mount the drive, as I wanted it
> > > to mount automatically on boot, but this line does not seem to get
> > > executed (I was following instructions from a Red Hat site). Is this
> > > the right place to be putting the mount statement?
> >
> > (I don't think anyone's addressed this yet...)
> >
> > The fstab file doesn't work like that.
> >
> > It's not an executable file containing statements to be run. It's a list
> > of filesystems and the options they need to be automatically loaded (or
> > not). So you *can't* put a straight "mount" command into fstab.
> >
> > A typical fstab line might be
> > /dev/hda11 /media/data  vfat defaults 0 0
> > to mount the device hda11 on /media/data as a vfat (long filename
> > DOS-compatible) filesystem. The 0's tell mount that it shouldn't be
> > checked before booting, nor dumped to tape when backing up. (Both are
> > good options for vfat: you could experiment with "0 2" if you have
> > dosfstools installed).
> >
> > If you want to be able to write to the partition as a normal user, then
> > you can do something like this:
> > /dev/hda11 /media/data  vfat defaults,dmask=0,fmask=111 0 0
> >
> > Hope this clarifies things,
> >
> > James.
> >
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> So if i switch to root
> open the fstab file
> and add this line
> 
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/disk2 vfat defaults,dmask=0,fmask=111 0 0
> 
> the next time i reboot it should auto mount the drive  and allow me to
> rwx to the drive?
> 
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