[arch-dev-public] filesystem 2008.03 bump with small change?
Aaron Griffin
aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 15:50:34 EST 2008
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2008 schrieb Dan McGee:
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9697
> > > > > >
> > > > > > can i change fstab to:
> > > > > > /dev/cdrom /media/cd auto
> > > > > > ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/dvd
> > > > > > /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0
> > > > > > /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
> > > > >
> > > > > Looks good to me - just curious: what was it originally? Are we
> > > > > adding unhide?
> > > >
> > > > Pulling from /etc/fstab on gerolde, I'd say it used to look like:
> > > >
> > > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0
> > > > 0 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide
> > > > 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto
> > > > 0 0
> > > >
> > > > Changed the filesystem types to 'auto', as the FS report asks.
> > >
> > > Wait wait.... removable media to auto means it will be mounted on
> > > boot.... that seems downright wrong. If you need ability to mount as a
> > > user, you probably want "users" in there
> >
> > auto FS TYPE, not auto mount. look at the noauto still in there in the
> > mount options.
> >
> > -Dan
>
> so what to do now?
> changing user to users too? and adding iocharset=utf8?
> or should this be left to the user to decide which options to use?
Ah, ignore me - Dan found my confusion - apparently I can't read that
well. Yes, I am fine with the changes. Regarding the other iocharset
and whatnot changes... I think we're getting way too specific here.
The fstab should have sane defaults but not try to cover all bases. If
our users don't know how to edit a file, then we got bigger problems.
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