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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, tom wrote:
On 30/09/10 09:27, Gordon Henderson wrote:Like I say - I've got my system mounted as I want it. Maybe I'm wrong about mount -p but I'm sure there was something that basically gave you fstab. I wouldnt overwrite without checking first either. I'm OK with hand typing - but these bloody UUIDs etc are a bit hard to check and even with cut and paste (only access over ssh) its a bit hairy.On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, tom wrote:I've got my system mounting drives as I want itMany moons ago one could type mount -p>/etc/fstab to get the current settings to be setup on boot.This not longer works Any idea how to do that now?mount -p is for mounting a device with an encryption passphrase..I'd sort of suggest that blindly overwriting /etc/fstab is a bad idea though - especially if you have devices mounted after the system boots - because if they're not there at the next boot, you'll have issues...mount on it's own will list the mounted filesystems, but not in a format suitable for /etc/fstabI don't know of a way to list mounts in that format - it's never something that I've ever considered... I actually hand-craft my /etc/fstab at system build time and never bother with any sortof automounter, hardware detect bloatware... but then, I'm not afraid to hand-type a mount command...
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 2Obviously 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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq