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Re: basic fstab .. pilot idiocy??



On 6 Aug 2014 16:15 -0400, from reader@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam):
>  # mount /home/harry/.junk
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

> The fstab line:
> 
>   /dev/sdd1   /home/harry/misc   ext4   user,uid=1000,gid=1050   0    0 

The combination doesn't make sense to me.

How does the system know that /home/harry/misc == /home/harry/.junk?
Is there some connection between the two that I miss?

And yes, get it working from the command line first, then worry about
/etc/fstab.

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