[PLUG] /etc/fstab

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Aug 27 03:05:29 UTC 2003


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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:35:46AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> What is the difference between;
> 
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto user,noauto 0 0
> 
> and
> 
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat defaults,users 0 0

Read fstsab(5), it describes it nicely.  The former adds some
intelligence by guessing the filesystem and letting users mount.
defaults will try to mount it automatically, noauto will not.  Just
use the former if you're trying to figure out which is better for
mounting a camera.

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