fstab options

subatomic · 2009-01-31 12:20:43

I've got my MacBook in fstab as type nfs. NFS is running great - I've got access from Mac to Arch and when the fstab options are set to 'defaults' mounting and access from arch are OK except that I don't want it to be mounted at boot.

I understand that 'defaults' translates to 'rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async' but when I take this and change one option to 'noauto' I can't mount the dang thing. I'm also curious about 'nouser'. If this allows only root to mount the system why is it a default setting? In a previous install I had it set to 'users,noauto,hard,intr' but even this is not working now.

The current fstab line reads:
192.168.0.100:/Users/robert /mnt/macbook nfs rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,users,async 0 0

I hope it's an easy fix, but I can't figure this one out for the life in me.

ahcaliskan · 2009-01-31 12:39:51

The current fstab line reads:
192.168.0.100:/Users/robert /mnt/macbook nfs rw,suid,dev,exec,noauto,users,async 0 0

change users to user, and you'll be able to mount it. Example:

/dev/sdb1    /media/LaCie    ntfs-3g    user,noauto,dmask=022,fmask=133    0       0

Last edited by ahcaliskan (2009-01-31 12:42:36)

subatomic · 2009-01-31 15:11:28

I've tried that more than once.

ahcaliskan · 2009-01-31 15:19:13

ok, I thought you had difficulties mounting as normal user. You need to comment fstab if you don't wish it to be mounted at boot. In this way you'll mount it manually whenever you like it. And by using hal and gnome volume manager you could accomplish that. Are you using gnome or kde?

fukawi2 · 2009-02-01 23:12:36

ahcaliskan wrote:

You need to comment fstab if you don't wish it to be mounted at boot.

No.

You can leave the 'defaults' option like you had it working, and just add the 'noauto' option to override the 'auto' option that is part of 'defaults'. Everything else in 'defaults' will remain as is:

192.168.0.100:/Users/robert    /mnt/macbook     nfs     defaults,noauto     0 0

Edit: changed 'defualts' to 'defaults'

Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-02-01 23:13:08)

subatomic · 2009-02-03 22:31:36

that looks good, thanks

[edit]

unfortunately I still can't mount it as normal user in KDE Dolphin but only as root in the console.

I added the users option as well 'defaults,noauto,users'

Last edited by subatomic (2009-02-06 08:05:30)

subatomic · 2009-02-20 08:29:53

I'm still puzzled

ahcaliskan · 2009-02-20 10:15:09

I believe you need to fix your hal settings:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/

read wiki or google about it to start with.

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fstab options

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Re: fstab options

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