On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Piet Barber wrote:
<snip>
->To get to your question about the Mount Tool: You need an entry for
->this in the /etc/fstab.
->
->In the old, efficient days of Unix/Linux, you would edit the
->/etc/fstab (or /etc/vfstab in Slowlaris land) by hand.
->
->There's an ability to do this in linuxconf now, you lose no points for
->using the GUI, so if you shy away from the whole aspect of editing
->configuration files, you're welcome to. You'll be denying many years
->of hard-fought history in unixland, but it's your choice. And that's
->what Linux is about anyway. Choice.
->
->Me? I like brute-force. I edit that sucker by hand. If you choose to
->do so, you can use mine as an example. My /etc/fstab has two entries,
->one for ext2 (linux) and one for vfat (Windows)
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*** And there's a good reason to do so. While using GUI faces...eeer...
interfaces could make live simpler I can't stress enough to anybody I talk
to that knowing what's happening behind the button you click on is
important in order to keep an outlook on things. I'm not pushing anybody
to learn C but knowing the bases of /etc/fstab's syntax e.g. can help you
a lot when something doesn't want to work the way you like it. And it
helps you also learn about the system you're using because you'll be
forced to open a man file and look into doc's. While editing
/etc/resolv.conf by hand doesn't look very important it will help you
understand how the (Inter)net config works.
And last but not least, editing config files by hand is also saying *NO*
to the click-o-drome generation and world Gates is trying to create...
That's Linux too: Principals. ;-)
Cheers!
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"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I
would be nervous too if my system was built on their technology."
-- Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy.
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