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Bug#336585: yaird: The fs_freq and fs_passno fields in /etc/fstab are optional



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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:15:21 +0100
Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:23:45AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:53:34 +0100
> > Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > if also options are optional (hmmmm... *options* are *optional*...
> > > makes some sense) then the following trivial patch will fix the
> > > error.
> > 
> > It is my understanding that Erik wants to lean on specs, rather than
> > woodoo. I pointed out earlier (in this or one of the other
> > bugreports?) to the manpage of fstab that says that "fourth field
> > [..] contains  at least the type of mount".
> > 
> > Those mount points you have on your system - should they be mounted
> > rw or ro?
> 
> rw. mount does the right thing, I'd say it applies the defaults it
> nothing is specified

I did not ask how mount parses a broken fstab. I asked what was
_intended_ with such line in an fstab.

It seems to me that it is undefined how such mountpoints should
(according to fstab () ) be mounted.


Erik can off course choose to mimic current undecoumented behaviour of
mount, but still I believe it is undocumented.

Please if persisting then point to documentation backing up your
arguments.


 - Jonas

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