fstab Question

[Billie Walsh]

David McGlone wrote:
> On Friday 07 December 2007 10:03:06 pm Billie Walsh wrote:
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>> I've been trying to get my other hard drives mounted automatically when
>> I boot the computer. With some very kind help from those on this list I
>> got it almost there.It won't mount automatically on boot. It's very
>> simple to mount them manually but I would rather not have to. below is
>> the relevant portion of the fstab:
>>
>> UUID=b06ff899-4a37-4613-9020-5ada5959c8b9 none swap sw 0 0
>> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
>> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
>> /dev/sdc /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
>> /dev/sda3 /media/SuSE auto users,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
>> /dev/sdb1 /media/NTFS auto users,atime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
>>
>> The two drives/mount points in question are sda1 [ XP ] and sdb3 [
>> OpenSusSE home partition ]. I notice that the only difference in the two
>> and all the others are the last three parameters, nodev, noexec, and
>> nosuid.
>>
>> IF I edit to make these parameters the same will I screw something up?
>>
>> OR
>>
>> Will it make the drives mount at boot time?
>>     
>
> change the noauto to auto.
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First: I want to apologize for the long quote.

Second: Thanks to Michael McIntyre and David McGlone. I don't know when
I will reboot the system next, this is Linux not Windows, but I think
that will fix my problem.

Third: Can someone explain, in simple [ noob ] terms, what the last
three parameters [ nodev, noexec, and nosuid ] mean/do? At this point
it's just my curiosity at work.