whats this mean?

slinky2004 · 10-08-2005, 11:14 PM

i was reading this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/361073 and i'm not sure what this means:

Quote:

You cannot run fsck on a drive that is mounted. If you try to force this you can lose the entire partition. Unmount it before trying. You can mount it easily with full r/w permission, just set your -o flag in fstab to rw.

what's the -o flag in /etc/fstab? do they mean the mount -o flag?

Wynd · 10-08-2005, 11:20 PM

Yes. The fourth field in /etc/fstab is the list of arguments that get passed to the -o option of mount.

AwesomeMachine · 10-09-2005, 02:56 AM

that means if you put "rw" in the options for that drive in "etc/fstab" it will be passed as the -o argument in "mount -o /mnt/debian" Or whatever mount point you use.

slinky2004 · 10-09-2005, 12:04 PM

ok, thx