On Sun 28 Mar 2021 at 15:24:55 (-0400), songbird wrote: > > something is causing /etc/fstab to be rescanned when i change > the file and i don't want that ever to happen unless i actually > run the mount command myself. how can i turn this off? > > MATE desktop, debian testing, up to date. > > trying to figure out which part is causing this to happen. > > any ideas? googling isn't giving me useful results and > the man pages aren't either. :(
Perhaps man systemd.mount and its references might help. I wasn't aware that *just* editing /etc/fstab would do this, but perhaps MATE has set a watch on the file? Cheers, David.
