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Re: fstab entry not working

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From: Alec H. Peterson
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:06
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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
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Alec Peterson
e-mail: chuckie@choate.edu
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