fstab changes

Jongi · 08-05-2005, 02:35 PM

Is there any way to make changes made to /etc/fstab take place immediatley or do I always need to reboot?

timcharper · 08-05-2005, 02:46 PM

you can run them immediately without rebooting

after you edit /etc/fstab, type mount and then the mount point

for example:

mount /mnt/musicshared

Jongi · 08-05-2005, 03:15 PM

Aaah and the mount will read the new fstab entry for that mountpoint :thup:

Jongi · 08-05-2005, 04:42 PM

Now there is the small problem when I run the command

: mount /mnt/cdrom

It returns the error

mount: permission denied

The mount is being run as root

When I type mount the following appears:

Code:

none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/hdb,fs=iso9660,--)

When I type cat /etc/fstab the following appears:

Code:

/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,suid 0 0

timcharper · 08-05-2005, 04:44 PM

hmm

well, I don't know what to tell you there. this is what I have in my fstab file. maybe you could try changing it something similar. My distro is fedora 3, but it shouldn't matter too much.

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

improverrr · 08-05-2005, 09:24 PM

you can reupdate the complete fstab all at once by typing: mount -a

tkedwards · 08-07-2005, 09:27 PM

Quote:

well, I don't know what to tell you there. this is what I have in my fstab file. maybe you could try changing it something similar. My distro is fedora 3

Mandriva uses fstab-sync and gnome-volume-manager in 2005LE to mount CD/DVD drives. From that it looks like Fedora uses autofs so this won't work in Mandriva.

Jongi first unmount /mnt/cdrom, you shouldn't need to customise it to use supermount (its been deprecated for CD/DVD drives) and fstab-sync will keep overwriting your customisations in /etc/fstab anyway. Now you should be able to just insert a CD and cd into the directory (or open it in konqueror or whatever) and it should work.

Jongi · 08-08-2005, 11:16 AM

1. I unmount mnt/cdrom
2. edit fstab and add supermount to mnt/cdrom line?
3. run mount -a?

tkedwards · 08-08-2005, 05:56 PM

No Mandriva doesn't use supermount for CDs anymore in this version. Change fstab back to what it was normally. Make sure that haldaemon, hotplug and messagebus are running:

Code:

service haldaemon status
service messagebus status
....

Jongi · 08-10-2005, 07:23 AM

I notice that the fstab has the following

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

tkedwards · 08-10-2005, 09:28 PM

This thread seems to be about a similar problem:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=350091