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- From: chuckie@spock.uucp (Alec H. Peterson)
- Subject: Re: fstab entry not working
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.230600.19007@spock.UUCP>
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- References: <1992Nov13.235039.3056@ohsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:06:00 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Nov13.235039.3056@ohsu.edu> filibert@ohsu.edu writes:
- >Hi Everybody!
- >
- >I've just added a new SCSI hard drive to my system. Everything works ok, its
- >initialized and is mounted when a user logs in. Now, I would like to make it a
- >permanent part of the filesystem. I've added the line
- >
- >/dev/sd1a /Archive 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
- >
- >to my fstab, and rebooted, but nothing changes and the thing works in the same
- >way, not allowing to set permissions. Anyone had problems doing this? Any
- >suggestions?
- >
- >Daniel
- >
- >---
- >************************************************************
- >Motto for a monitor, "It's better to burn out, than to fade
- > away..." [8?)}
- >************************************************************
- >
- >Daniel Filiberti
- >Oregon Health Sciences University
- >Biomedical Information Communication Center (BICC)
- >3181 Sam Jackson Park Road
- >Portland, Oregon 97201-3098
- >email: filibert@ohsu.edu
-
- Your problem is that you used noauto. That is a function that bypasses that
- filesystem when a mount -a is used, the type that is used in bootup. Take that
- entry out of there and you should be fine.
-
- Alec Peterson
- --
- Alec Peterson
- e-mail: chuckie@choate.edu
-