Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 12/29/2016 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit :
> > I added these two lines to /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/sda7       /media/sda7     ext2    users,rw     0       0
> > /dev/sda8       /media/sda8     ext2    users,rw     0       0
>
> Don't do that. Really.
>
> 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev/sda7.
> They are unreliable. Use persistent identifiers such as UUID or
> LABEL instead.

In general I agree. For this specific use case of this specific 
machine at this specific moment, what I did is reasonable and 
proper.

> 2) The "users" option does not make sense without the "noauto"
> option because the filesystem is going to be mounted
> automatically at startup, so users do not need to mount it.

That was just one iteration of me vainly attempting to grasp 
mount(8).

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