Bug#1033630: debian-installer: should fstab swap entries use "sw" as option?
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 00:33, Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo@scientia.org> wrote:
> Anyway... maybe it makes sense to use some other value, most likely
> "defaults" then...
Hi, the only time that "defaults" should be used in field 4 of /etc/fstab is
when a value to the right of it (field 5 or 6) are required to be non-empty
AND no non-default options are required.
In that situation, field 4 has to be non-blank, which is when setting it
to "defaults" becomes useful.
Otherwise, putting "defaults" in field 4 achieves nothing, because defaults
are defaults so there is no reason to specify them.
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