Something always changes fstab

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Mon Feb 13 23:14:09 UTC 2006


On Monday 13 February 2006 01:08, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> I made a modified to my fstab in /dev/fd0 floppy line from auto to vfat.
> The reason I do this because with auto, sometimes FC4 will fail reading the
> floppy.
> But, everytime I boot the box, it gets back to auto.
>
> I read on the manual and it says that something called fstab-sync does
> that. And if I want to prevent it from doing that, I can immute the file.
> But, does it mean if I insert a CD into the CDROM drive, supermount will
> encounter error since it cannot modify fstab anymore?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial
> http://linux2.arinet.org
> 13:08:27 up 3:51, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux
> Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
The answer in man fstab-sync is to chattr fstab 
I.E.
root at loco.host$>chattr +i /etc/fstab
-- 
Some people have convictions.
Some people have opinions
I think I'll have a cheeseburger!




More information about the users mailing list