[arch-dev-public] filesystem 2008.03 bump with small change?

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Wed Mar 5 15:54:56 EST 2008


Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2008 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
> 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.

ok i'll checkin then, with the auto fs type only :)
greetings
tpowa

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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