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In article <BzH58v.4q5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James  
Beauchamp) writes:
> We've added an external hard drive to our NeXT (OS 2.1) and it's working  
fine
> except that whoever logs in on console owns all of the files under that
> disk's partition.  The fix given in the Sys Adm manual refers to the  
file 
> /etc/fstab, but that won't work if we're running NetInfo. So what do we  
do to
> get this to mount correctly?  I hope there is an easy way!
> 
> Jim Beauchamp

When we got our CubeRoute 1GB hard drive, it was automounting. We had the  
same problems as you. We had to add to our /etc/mtab file the following  
line:

/dev/sd1a "/CubeRouteHardDrive" 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

sd1a is the CubeRoute drive (as an external drive). sd0a was our NeXTcube  
internal 330MB hard drive (as the boot drive).

I don't really understand the options used for the sd1a drive , but I got  
them from the CubeRoute guy. Without this entry in /etc/mtab the external  
drive will automount as you described.

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Greg Colello
Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
Stanford University
gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)

In article <1992Dec19.011628.5712@leland.Stanford.EDU>
	gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes:
>In article <BzH58v.4q5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James  
>Beauchamp) writes:
>> We've added an external hard drive to our NeXT (OS 2.1) and it's working  
>fine
>> except that whoever logs in on console owns all of the files under that
>> disk's partition.  The fix given in the Sys Adm manual refers to the  
>file 
>> /etc/fstab, but that won't work if we're running NetInfo.

Of course it will--/etc/fstab is read *before* NetInfo starts.
Put your local hard drives in /etc/fstab, and your NFS mounts
in NetInfo.

	[/etc/fstab]
	/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
	/dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

This will cause the external disk to be properly mounted at boot
time, and the automounter will leave it alone.

>same problems as you. We had to add to our /etc/mtab file the following  

No! No! No!  /etc/mtab is maintained by the mount(8) utility to
parallel the kernel's mount state.  You should not ever be
editing this file.  (And if you really do need to add something
to /etc/mtab--and I doubt you ever will--the correct way is to
use  mount -f)

					-=EPS=-

Thanks to everyone who responded to my note.  I was confused by the statement
in the file /etc/fstab that said

 # NOTE: This file is never consulted if NetInfo is running. It is only
 # used during bootstrap.

I interpreted this to mean that the information in this file was somehow
completely ineffective if NetInfo was used.  So now I have edited this line
to say

# NOTE: This file is used to initialize disk partition status during bootstrap.
# It is not consulted while NetInfo is running, 

The consensus is that to provide indivdual file ownership and protection the
fstab file should follow the following format:

/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /Clients 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd1a /External 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2

where sd0a,b are partitions of the internal drive and sd1a is a partition of
the external SCSI drive.

Jim Beauchamp