How to fstab

[ticket]

Ah, thanks Bohdi.

I am just developing some stand-alone programs to perform various scientific calculations. I like to keep the code and binaries together on my 'data' disc, as the binaries are of no use to anyone except me.

If I create a ~/bin folder, does Ubuntu include it in the search path? What is the order of search? I think it is something like:

/usr/local/bin first, followed by
/usr/bin,
then ... ?

On a separate hard disc is my system disc, which holds a minimal /home directory, just to provide configuration info to the system programs like mplayer, etc. So I think this is a fairly clean separation between the things I do and what Ubuntu does.

I backup my system disc now and then using 'dd' to another spare disc. I use rsync to back up my data disc, to a different spare disc.

I suppose I could move my development environment back to /home, but I rather like the way things are set up now. Except for this 'suid' business.

[bodhi.zazen]

That all sounds reasonable to me, nothing wrong with it.

To see your path :

echo $PATH

If you have a ~/bin it should be the last item on the list.

[rahimveron]

Great Guide.

[molavec]

Good Work, very comprehensible guide.

[bodhi.zazen]

Added a link to Pysdm, a gui tool to configure fstab.

pysdm is in the Ubuntu repositories and I have been taking it for a spin on Zenix. In general it works quite well.

[dcstar]

Added a link to Pysdm, a gui tool to configure fstab.

pysdm is in the Ubuntu repositories and I have been taking it for a spin on Zenix. In general it works quite well.

Hurrah! - I have been recommending pysdm for years to people that just want a nice, simple GUI to manage their disks.

Why packages like this - which are basically essential for any user who does not want to be forced to learn arcane things like working with the fstab file just to connect one of their disks permanently - are not installed by default is really baffling.

[disophisis]

Thank you for this! as a beginner to linux, I look to the internet for assistance a lot for learning, and this is a very well done how-to.

[paul uk]

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Fstab Examples
# NFS
Server:/share /media/nfs nfs rsize=8192 and wsize=8192,noexec,nosuid
# "Server" = Samba server (by IP or name if you have an entry for the server in your hosts file
# "share" = name of the shared directory

Great post, helped this noob immensely.

The above section from the original post contains a typo. The line should instead read

Server:/share /media/nfs nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,noexec,nosuid


Thanks

[danklaf777]

Great ! Thank you. This will surely help

[bodhi.zazen]

Great post, helped this noob immensely.

The above section from the original post contains a typo. The line should instead read

Server:/share /media/nfs nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,noexec,nosuid


Thanks

Thank you, I fixed that one.