[ale] simple question

Sean Kilpatrick drifter at oppositelock.org
Wed Feb 2 16:35:40 EST 2005


On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:37 pm, Jim Patterson wrote:
| Since that is an ext3 (ext2 or xfs will also work), you should be able to
| just use the UUID or LABEL based mounting to work around the changing
| device id.
| 
| Try something like this in your fstab:
| 
| LABEL=backups ? ?/mnt/backup ? ? ext3 ? noauto,owner,ro ? 0 0
| 
| Jim P.


Jim,
I can certainly edit the fstab file. That's easy.
But if I make the change, then what . . . ?
Do I issue the command <mount backups>? and how do I avoid more
permission hell?  That is, what devices/links need to have their
permissions set to that <user> can mount the drive?

Sean

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