fstab confusion

sniff · 10-15-2005, 03:27 AM

Hello,

I have just installed FC4 on a machine that I was given and I'm a little confused. I have been using Suse for ages and very used to working with it.

The problem I'm having is that I want to alter the fstab file as the zip is not being mount properly and I would like to mount some samba shares at boot. So I did my usual open in vim as root but at the top it said that, "This file is edited by fstab-sync..."

So I opened man fstab-sync and it said it was rarely run in a shell as it was run by the Hal Daemon.

I then looked at the Rehat/Fedora pages and they had a small picture of some sort of 'device manager' thingy, look very pretty but I can't find it on my computer.

So the question is, do I have to use one of these programs to edit fstab now? if I do, why is that, and which is the best? Or can I just change it myself as I have done?

Thanks,
Phil

daste · 10-15-2005, 04:06 AM

personally when I had FC4 on my notebook I modified it brutally and it worked, but it's absolutely not the way to follow!

AnEnchanterCalledTim · 10-15-2005, 06:42 AM

I modified mine the other day by hand, works fine.

init100 · 10-15-2005, 04:13 PM

Quote:

So the question is, do I have to use one of these programs to edit fstab now? if I do, why is that, and which is the best? Or can I just change it myself as I have done?

Every entry added (and modified) by fstab-sync is marked with the word 'managed' in the options field. If you don't change these rows, every other row should be just fine to edit. We can use my /etc/fstab as an example:

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/sda9               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/sda6               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda5               /mnt/win/e              vfat    defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda8               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

As you can see, my cd recorder (/dev/hdc) is the only entry managed by fstab-sync. I can change all the other entries without worrying about fstab-sync. Only /dev/hdc is ever updated by fstab-sync.

sniff · 10-16-2005, 11:19 AM

Thanks,
I think I will just add the required bits my self and see if it works.

Cheers,
Phil