Re: /etc/fstab configuration

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Sunday 02 December 2001 07:47 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Otis Ward wrote:
> > I recently altered only the /dev/fd0 line of my /etc/fstab file, instead
> > of commenting out the original so it could be restored I edited the only
> > existing version of that line. It now reads as follows;
> >
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy  floppy  defaults, user, auto 0 0; edited version
> >
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy xxxxxx defaults, user, noauto 0 0; original
> >
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy  xxxxxx defaults, user, noauto  0 0; my attempt to
> > return to the original setting
> >
> > Can you tell me the original setting for the third column?
>
> Mine says "auto", which makes sense, since you might have floppies in
> various formats.
>
> I'm also not sure whether you should have spaces between "user" and
> "noauto"; I think the fstab format uses spaces to separate the columns. Try
> pasting this next line into your /etc/fstab and see if it works better:
>
> /dev/floppy /floppy auto defaults,user.noauto 0 0
>
> Craig


user and noauto should be comma-separated.