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Re: fstab automatically being rescanned by ?



On Sun 28 Mar 2021 at 15:24:55 (-0400), songbird wrote:
> 
>   something is causing /etc/fstab to be rescanned when i change
> the file and i don't want that ever to happen unless i actually
> run the mount command myself.  how can i turn this off?
> 
>   MATE desktop, debian testing, up to date.
> 
>   trying to figure out which part is causing this to happen.
> 
>   any ideas?  googling isn't giving me useful results and
> the man pages aren't either.  :(

Perhaps   man systemd.mount   and its references might help.
I wasn't aware that *just* editing /etc/fstab would do this,
but perhaps MATE has set a watch on the file?

Cheers,
David.


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