Re: fstab problem [FIXED]
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 05:30, ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> wrote:
> The fstab:
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 08:00, ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > My bad -- default options is spelled 'defaults'.
> >
> > UUID=301d6d6d-6782-4be3-b979-0cb595ef1a48 /backupDisk ext4 defaults 0 0
>
> Well, damned if it didn't work. And I had all of my non-root fstab entries with singular defaults too. Thanks vastly, David.
The only reason to that <options>=defaults exists is so that
a non-default value can be specified for either <dump> or <pass>,
while not specifying any non-default <options>.
Because there can't be a fifth or sixth column unless there is
also a fourth column. "defaults" is just a dummy value for the
fourth column.
Using "defaults 0 0" is specifying default value for all three
of <options>, <dump>, and <pass>.
In that situation, they can all be omitted.
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