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Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive)

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Cindy-Sue Causey composed on 2019-03-01 01:30 (UTC-0500):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> David Wright composed on 2019-02-28 20:26 (UTC-0600):

>>> I always add an explicit rw or ro under options, along with defaults.

>> English can be tricky. Please clarify. AIUI, the string "defaults" is a
>> placeholder, unnecessary if
>> any other option is specified. Man mount doesn't make it clear to me. I
>> can't recall ever including
>> it along with any other option. I've always assumed all defaults not
>> explicitly overridden will be
>> used.

> That's what I'd been thinking, too. Because of your question, I just
> tried a search for...

> "defaults,rw" /etc/fstab

> Some things pulled up from varying resources out there. Without
> actually visiting any of the results, sometimes they just said the
> above. Other times, they would have "defaults,rw" with a few of the
> various remaining options tacked on the end of that, as well.

To be clear, "including it" above meant an fstab line I created from scratch or any options entry I
edited, not any created by any Linux installer. I just checked original fstabs created by

Etch (in 2006)
Fedora 7 (in 2006)
openSUSE 10.3 (in 2007)
Squeeze (in 2011)
openSUSE 42.1 (in 2015)
Bionic (in 2018)
Buster (in 2018)

on PCs here. Not one contains the string "defaults" adjacent to a comma. I have seen defaults
adjacent to a comma in fstab option lines in web searches, mailing lists and forums, but don't know
why it ever happens.
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User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-02-28 21:50 +0100
  Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Dekks Herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> - 2019-03-01 02:00 +0100
  Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-01 03:30 +0100
    Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-03-01 04:50 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-01 07:40 +0100
        Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw  Permissions on New Hard Drive) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-03-01 09:00 +0100
          Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns (was: User rw  Permissions on New Hard Drive) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-01 18:00 +0100
            Re: string "defaults" in fstab options columns Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-03-01 19:30 +0100
        Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-01 18:00 +0100
          Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-01 18:10 +0100
            Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-01 18:40 +0100
    Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Dekks Herton <dekkzz78@gmail.com> - 2019-03-01 08:40 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-03-01 15:40 +0100
        Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-01 18:50 +0100
          Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-03-01 19:10 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-01 18:20 +0100
    Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-05 15:20 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-03-05 20:20 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-06 23:50 +0100
  Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-07 15:40 +0100
    Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 16:10 +0100
      Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-07 18:20 +0100
        Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 19:10 +0100
        Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-07 20:30 +0100
          Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-07 22:10 +0100
            Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-03-07 22:30 +0100
              Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-08 01:30 +0100
            Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-08 03:20 +0100
              Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-08 07:10 +0100
          Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-03-07 23:20 +0100
            Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-08 04:20 +0100
              Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-08 14:30 +0100
                Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-09 05:30 +0100
              Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-03-09 20:40 +0100
                Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-11 19:50 +0100
                Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-03-16 10:50 +0100
                Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 16:30 +0100
    Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-03-07 18:20 +0100

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