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On 30/09/10 19:44, kevin wrote:
Use as root "mount -a" instead of a reboot
doesnt always seem to get smb and ntfs shares working properly again Tom te tom te tom
I have had trouble after going from Fedora8 to Mint 9 with a new PC Mint looks at the type of device and also the associated app and decides on how the device should be "mounted". For example I used CD/DVD creator in Fedora on a regular job reproducing DVDs from a Master for a customer. In mint the Master Dvd is never mounted as it's a block device, but it will play as a DVD when the right app is opened. This confused me for a while until I realised if I just us the right App ie K3b. It shows the Master and blank disks where Nautilus doesn't. So I have learnt that when moving forward to a new setup don't try to make the old stuff work as is as I too could have spent needless time forcing fstab to do what the system does on it's own! On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 12:20 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: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... GordonBut 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... GordonRegards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Ten Years in the Making! www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386
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