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Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

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On 12/29/2016 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit :
>>
>> I added these two lines to /etc/fstab:
>> /dev/sda7       /media/sda7     ext2    users,rw     0       0
>> /dev/sda8       /media/sda8     ext2    users,rw     0       0
>
> Don't do that. Really.
>
> 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev/sda7.
> They are unreliable. Use persistent identifiers such as UUID or
> LABEL instead.

In general I agree. For this specific use case of this specific 
machine at this specific moment, what I did is reasonable and 
proper.

>
> 2) The "users" option does not make sense without the "noauto"
> option because the filesystem is going to be mounted
> automatically at startup, so users do not need to mount it.

That was just one iteration of me vainly attempting to grasp 
mount(8).

>
>

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Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-29 17:00 +0100
  Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-29 22:00 +0100
    Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-12-29 22:20 +0100
      Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-12-29 23:10 +0100
      Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 12:20 +0100
        Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 14:20 +0100
          Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 17:20 +0100
            Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 17:20 +0100
              Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 18:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-30 18:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 19:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-12-30 20:30 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-30 21:00 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-31 10:40 +0100
                Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-12-30 19:20 +0100
        Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2016-12-30 19:20 +0100
    Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-30 12:20 +0100

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