Re: [LUG] auto creating fstab

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, tom wrote:

> On 30/09/10 11:05, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> > What's a UUID? I seem to survive without them...
> >
> > Extract from my desktops /etc/fstab:
> >
> > /dev/fd0                        /floppy auto    user,noauto               0 
> > 0
> > /dev/cdrom                      /cdrom  iso9660 ro,user,noauto            0 
> > 0
> > /dev/dvd                        /dvd    iso9660 ro,user,noauto            0 
> > 0
> > /dev/sdb1                       /camera msdos   user,noauto               0 
> > 0
> > /dev/sdb                        /n900   vfat    user,noauto               0 
> > 0
> >
> > /dev/sda1        /       ext3    errors=remount-ro                0 1
> > /dev/sda2        none    swap    sw                               0 0
> > /dev/sda3        /usr    ext3    defaults,noatime,data=writeback  0 2
> > /dev/sda4        /var    ext3    defaults,noatime,data=writeback  0 2
> >
> >
> > Obviously I can't have my camera and phone plugged in at the same time, but 
> > that's not physicaly possible for my anyway due to the way I have an 
> > extension cable from the box...
> >
> > If I plug in a usb-data key, it almost always looks like 'camera', so I 
> > just type mount /camera and it works.
> >
> > But then, I don't have a fancy desktop/filemanager thing to wory about 
> > finding stuff and copying it to/from devices.
> >
> > I know I'm old, boring and of a dying breed, but I do feel that my system 
> > is more "productive" to the way I work than anything else...
> >
> > > And as for build time - these sodding USB devices often arnt there at 
> > > build time!
> >
> > Same here - but I just edit them into fstab afterwards...
> >
> > Gordon
> But that can require several re-boots to get it right - and this machine is 
> SLOOOOOOOOOW. I share out the USB drives and I'd like to just go 'use that' 
> once I've got stuff sorted so when we get one of our regular power cuts I 
> dont have to edit via SSH, or if fstab is borked pull the damn thing out of 
> the cupboard and wire it up to monitor etc.

Hm. What's a reboot? I seem to survive without them.

Really - you don't need a reboot when editing /etc/fstab... If you do, 
something in your system is broken. The noauto parameter tells the system 
to not try to mount it at boot time and the user option lets ordinary 
users do the mount without becoming root...

> I seem to remember there was a simple way of doing it - in my dreams perhaps 
> ..

I think my way is simple, but then I've been doing it that way for more 
years than I care to remember...

Gordon

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