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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

Commas must
separate options. See the mount command manual page (under the -o option) for information
on other supported options.
Normally, only the root user is allowed to mount a file system using the mount command.
However, to allow any user to mount a file system (such as a file system on a
floppy disk), you could add the user option to Field 4 of /etc/fstab. In SUSE, read/write permissions
are given to specific devices (such as disk or audio devices) by specific groups (such as the disk
or audio group) so that users assigned to those groups can mount or otherwise access those devices.
In the YaST Control Center, choose Security and Users??? User Management??? Expert Options???
Defaults for New Users. The Secondary Groups box indicates which of these additional groups each
user is assigned to.
 Field 5??”The number in this field indicates whether the indicated file system needs to
be dumped (that is, have its data backed up). A 1 means that the file system needs to be
dumped, and a 2 means that it doesn??™t. (I don??™t think this field is useful anymore because
many Linux systems no longer include the dump command. Most often, a 0 is used.)
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 Field 6??”The number in this field indicates whether the indicated file system needs to
be checked with fsck.


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