I’d like to know what is the exact mechanism (implementation) used to defer mounting until after network interface is up when one uses _netdev option in /etc/fstab?
Does systemd alter this behavior?
Also, what does delay_connect option to sshfs provide what _netdev does not?
..and what are the consequences of the different methods?
I am learning about linux security and struggling to understand why a USB stick with a character device on it is potentially dangerous.
I have a network drive hosted on a Windows10 Machine, it mounts fine to my CentOS7 machine through the command:
The Arch Wiki on fstab specifies the options of / to be defaults,noatime, but on my installation the default fstab is created with the options of rw,relatime. The Arch Wiki covers the atime issues. What I am curious about is the defaults option. The man page for mount says:
For example, this is the first line of my /etc/fstab:
I need to mount a ntfs partition and be able to use it with unix file system permissions. The problem is that, when I mount the partition using the following fstab entry, I cannot run chown and chmod successfully. It executes without error, but the file access rights are not changed.
For the project SamplerBox, up to now I was using /dev/sda1 /media auto nofail 0 0 to have USB flash drives automatically mounted when inserted on the headless computer, see also Auto-mount and auto-remount with /etc/fstab. But this seems not very reliable, for example, when an USB flash drive is removed, and then re-inserted.
One of my servers is set up to automatically mount a Windows directory using fstab. However, after my last reboot it stopped working. The line in fstab is:
I was making some changes to /etc/fstab, when this chicken and egg question occurred to me – if /etc/fstab contains the instructions for mounting the file systems, including the root partition, then how does the OS read that file in the first place?