- Format of /etc/fstab
- Posted by Doug Laidlaw on July 17th, 2003
Are the two digits at the end of a line in /etc/fstab separate fields? If
so, they should be separated by a Tab, but I don't think that I have ever
seen them that way. In Mandrake's /etc/fstab, all fields seem to be
separated by spaces, and this is OK until a line is edited, when that line
needs to be changed to Tab.
Doug.
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- Posted by MM on July 17th, 2003
Doug Laidlaw wrote:
From the first paragraph of the fstab manpage:
"Each filesystem is described on a separate line; fields on each
line are separated by tabs or spaces"
MM
- Posted by Floyd Davidson on July 17th, 2003
Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
Why?
Have you tried reading the man page?
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- Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on July 17th, 2003
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 at 00:26 GMT, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
Yes.
man fstab:
DESCRIPTION
The file fstab contains descriptive information about the
various file systems. fstab is only read by programs, and not
written; it is the duty of the system administrator to properly
create and maintain this file. Each filesystem is described on
a separate line; fields on each line are separated by tabs or
spaces.
This is from a Mandrake system, but it's the same on all I've
looked at; on SunoS 4.1 it doesn't say so explicitly, but the
examples in the man page are space-separated.
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- Posted by ynotssor on July 17th, 2003
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Any ol' whitespace will do.
tony
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- Posted by Doug Laidlaw on July 17th, 2003
MM wrote:
spaces until I edited it. Then I had to change the spaces in the altered
line to tabs.
Doug.
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- Posted by Floyd Davidson on July 17th, 2003
Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@myaccess.com.au> wrote:
I doubt that Mandrake does anything to change the formatting of
fstab. Post your fstab file so others can see if it is correct.
Also describe *exactly* what did or did not happen using spaces.
Also, please show the output of "mount -V", which will provide the
version number of the mount program you have.
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