Can I set an /etc/fstab with options=auto to be skipped if mounting fails?
The manual says, it will break the boot process if an entry with options=auto fails.
Without auto, it does not automatically mount the device on boot.
So how to make the auto entry to be ignored on failures?
I have a question about the difference between 'ntfs' and 'ntfs-3g' in the filesystem type field in the /etc/fstab file. My Linux distribution is Xubuntu; I suppose the answer may well vary between distros.
My question is basically which is best to use in which contexts. It seems that most websites tell you to use 'ntfs-3g', which is a FUSE driver for NTFS under linux. From some searching around it seems to be the case that 'ntfs' (without the -3g part) typically refers to a kernel driver, rather than the ntfs-3g userland driver. The only problem with that is that I've been using 'ntfs' in my fstabs rather than 'ntfs-3g', while a check of /proc/filesystems doesn't show any listing for ntfs.
Can anyone shed some light on what the precise difference in semantics (if there is any) is between 'ntfs' and 'ntfs-3g'? Is it safe to assume that if mount sees 'ntfs' it will search for a driver which supports that type of filesystem and find the ntfs-3g driver if it's installed?
EDIT: I forgot to add that 'ntfs' has worked whenever I've used it -- I was simply curious as to the answer, and I wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something iffy.
I am currently using cifs to mount some network shares (that require authentication) in /etc/fstab. It works excellently, but I would like to move the authentication details (username/pass) outside of fstab and be able to chmod it 600 (as fstab can have issues if I were to change its permissions). I was wondering if it is possible to do this (many-user system, don't want these permissions to be viewable by all users).
from:
//server/foo/bar /mnt/bar cifs username=user,password=pass,r 0 0
to:
//server/foo/bar /mnt/bar cifs <link to permissions>,r 0 0
(or something analogous to this). Thanks.
I modified /etc/fstab.
I verified the new devices and I can mount them with the mount command.
How may I validate the modifications made to /etc/fstab ?
We have moved mysql data directory to another disk, so now /var/lib/mysql is just a mount point to another partition. We set the owner of the /var/lib/mysql directory to mysql.mysql.
But everytime we mount the partition, the ownership changes to root.root. Because of this, we couldn't create additional MySQL database.
Our fstab entry:
/dev/mapper/db-db /var/lib/mysql ext3 relatime 0 2
How to change the owner of mount point to user other than root?