I have been working on modifying my fstab and I was wondering if there is a way to use it without having to reboot the whole system.

I just added one entry and would like to see if the fstab entry will work.

Sure, there are a couple ways:

mount /mnt/directory -o remount

Will read your fstab and remount as structured in your fstab.

Cool

Another way would be to use

Thanks this works just fine. the command did just fine and the fs got mounted. But when I rebooted the system for a full test, it did not mount it.

my command at the command prompt was

mount //thor/linux -o remount

the entry in fstab is this ...

//thor/linux /u2 smbfs rw,exec,_netdev,fmask=666,dmask=777,noauto,username='user',password='',uid=500,gid=500

Any thoughts, I have tried

//thor/linux /u2 smbfs rw,exec,_netdev,fmask=666,dmask=777,noauto,user,uid=500,gid=500

//thor/linux /u2 smbfs rw,exec,_netdev,fmask=666,dmask=777,noauto,owner,uid=500,gid=500

with little success.

You must remove the "noauto" option, otherwise the computer won't mount it when you reboot.

DUH!

Thanks - RTM