Fabio Rosciano wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:13:19 -0500
timothy.larsen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
What do the kudzu and umask option do in fstab.
umask allows all users to read-write in windows partitions. It's like permissions opposite; in a certain way umask=000 is chmod=777.
Kudzu is a service (?) that scans for new hardware. When you install something new or remove hardware from your machine you should run Kudzu to get it configured.
But I cannot figure out for what is it there in /etc/fstab.
It's there primarily for removable devices (USB, firewire, etc.). If
it has "kudzu" in the options and kudzu sees it during boot, then the
"mount -a" will mount it. If kudzu doesn't see it (if it's not plugged
in), then "mount -a" won't mount it and won't complain that it's not
there.
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