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Filesystem Configurator Eats /etc/fstab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Fri Nov 1 13:48:32 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 13:35:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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I know I reported this once before, but at the time I had a flakey
disk and couldn;t be sure of the culprit. Now, with a new disk, I
have confirmed that the fs configurator is eating fstab.
For instance, I tried adding /dev/hdc as iso9660 at /mnt/cdrom and options
user,ro. The configurator pukes on this, apparently confused by what it
thinks is field misalignment between what I typed and what it expected.
This *might* not happen if only one option is given; I haven't tried.
Although the GUI gives no indication, fstab is now zero bytes long!
Fortunately, the configurator created /etc/fstab.bak, but if you were to
run configurator again, you would lose the original altogether if you
agreed to overwrite the backup. That prompt is good design, at least.
Is anyone else seeing anything like this when specifying two or more
comma-delimited options? This has happened to be several times; based on
this experience, I'd advise against using this tool altogether.
Kyle Ferrio
kbf@phy.duke.edu (919) 660-2518 office
Duke University, Dept. of Physics (919) 660-2525 FAX
Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305, USA
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