[PLUG] /etc/fstab

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:16, Alice Corbin wrote:
> In the third arg, 'auto' will try to automatically determine what
> the file system is, while 'vfat' says what it's expected to be.
> 
> In the fourth arg, 'user,noauto' says to allow normal users to
> mount the device, but not to do it automatically at boot time,
> while 'defaults,users' says to use the default settings
> (rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, async), but on second
> thought DO allow users to mount.
> 
> So the main diffs are that the first line will allow you to
> mount a variety of file systems, while the second will auto-mount
> at boot.
> 
> Ali
> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:35:46AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> > 

Correct me if I am wrong or don't understand the man page.

I though with user ....  user was the only one <execpt root> allowed
to umount once user mounted system

With users   anyone <any user> could umount a mounted system??????

?????????

Just my $0.02


Marvin


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