Re: [tlug] run on startup, but not too early

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

stephen@example.com wrote:
> Charles Muller writes:
>
>  > > Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and put the mount commands in there.  (Linux
>  > > gurus would instead put a script in init.d and link it from each of the
>  > > rc.d directories, but that always seems like too much work to me.)
>  > 
>  > That does it just fine--thanks.
>
> You probably will never regret this at all, but if you ever do regret
> it, it'll be bigtime---because you've forgotten that this ever didn't
> work.  Not even Darren will remember that he told you to put it in
> rc.local if it comes to that. :)  The right place for information
> about automatic mounts is fstab.

Since Jim and Boty have already made the same suggestion, I guess I'd 
better deal with it properly. The relevant portion of my fstab, which is 
working fine now, is this:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/win_c vfat noauto,users,umask=000,uid=chuck,gid=chuck 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d vfat 
noauto,users,uid=chuck,gid=chuck,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda6 /mnt/win_e vfat noauto,users,uid=chuck,gid=chuck,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrv vfat noauto,users,umask=000,uid=chuck,gid=chuck 0 0


If, however, I change, for example /mnt/win_d and /mnt/usbdrv to this 
(i.e., simply changing "noauto" to "auto"):


/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d vfat auto,users,uid=chuck,gid=chuck,exec,umask=000 0 0

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrv vfat auto,users,umask=000,uid=chuck,gid=chuck 0 0


...then these two partitions will be unwritable. If you look at the 
drive permissions, it will say that they *are* writable, but in fact you 
can't write to them. The other odd thing about it is that their creation 
date is listed as "1970" instead of 2006 as it should be.


Chuck

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