Mike McCarty wrote:
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
How it works... man fstab
anyway
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
defaults,noauto 0 0
NODE MOUNT_POINT FS_TYPE MOUNT_OPTIONS[,...] DUMP_OFTEN FSCK_ORDER
NODE: device node to mount
MOUNT_POINT: empty directory to mount over
FS_TYPE: file system type, or "auto" to guess
MOUNT_OPTIONS: options passed to the mount command at mount time
these are FS_TYPE dependent to a degree
this is a comma-separated list (no spaces!)
"noauto" here means "don't automatically mount
upon boot"
DUMP_OFTEN: tells dump whether this fs needs to be dumped
FSCK_ORDER: tells fsck which fsck pass to use for checks during boot
For the options in the fourth field, do man mount. If you use "auto" for
FS_TYPE on an MSDOS formatted floppy, you'll get vfat, which is
FAT12+LFNs (Long File Names) in this case. I prefer not to use vfat,
since I use floppies for transfer with MSDOS machines, which don't
understand LFNs. The last two fields may be omitted, I believe, if they
are to be 0, which they should be for floppies. You don't want
automatically to run fsck on your floppy when you boot, for example.
I explain the "auto" and "noauto" since they might seem to be in
conflict. :-)
I will try as you suggest for the stab entry, I need to research
those term and find out what I'm doing with them.
Anyway the immediate problem is solved.
Thanks to you and Mike McCarty.
Sorry if I was sketchy with info but I thought I had done everything
required, just needed to tell mount where to put it.
Welcome
HTH
Mike
Thanks Mike.
I don't deal with creating fstab entries often but I have researched the
subject before. The information you provided helps and is appreciated.
Bob Goodwin
