[Lugstuff] Beginners Mounting questions

[Theodore Knab]

Answer 1:

It may mount if you uncoment the entry.

However, you might want to mount it manually first to check.

You can always try to manually mount it first:
	mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /media/disk2 

	If you don't get an error, it is mounted.

	To unmount it, use:
		umount /dev/sdb1 
		or 
		umount /media/disk2

Answer 2:

As for the flags a 'man mount' seems to explain them:

user_xattr
       Enable Extended User Attributes. See the attr(5) manual page.

acl    Enable POSIX Access Control Lists.  See the acl(5) manual page


Answer 3:
	Not sure the guys that rolled the SUSE distribution probably thought
	it was safer to it that way.


	

On 22/09/09 15:11 -0400, David F Bleil wrote:
> I recently had to replace the primary hard disk, a SATA drive. When I restored 
> my system from backup I found that my other SATA drive "Disk2" would not 
> mount. The error message which is displayed 
> is "org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed
>     auth_admin_keep_always  <-(action,result) Which I assume is from KDE.
> 
> My system is Open Suse 11.1 using KDE 3.5.1.
> 
> 
>  The following is a copy of my /etc/fstab
> ******************
> /dev/sda3            /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
> /dev/sda2            /media/dos           vfat       
> users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
> /dev/sda1            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
> sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
> debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
> usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
> ###/dev/sdb1            /media/disk2         ext3       user,acl,user_xattr   
> 1 2
> ###/dev/sdc1                                          /media/disk          
> ext2       defaults              1 2
> *******************
> I presume that the hash marks in front of dev/sdb1 and in front of dev/sdc1  
> are comments and if I were to remove them I should be able to mount the disk. 
> My questions are;
> 1. If I do this and reboot what is likely to go wrong?
> 2. What does "acl" and "user_xattr" mean?
> 3. Why did something comment out the other drive when I reinstalled from 
> backup?
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> David F. Bleil
> Catboat sailor from Crofton
> 
> SUSE Linux 11.1
> This penguin can fly!
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