updfstab - update /etc/fstab to reflect removable devices
SYNOPSIS
updfstab [-nt] [--usage]
DESCRIPTION
updfstab is designed to keep /etc/fstab consistent with
the devices plugged into your system. It looks for devices
such as cdroms, zip and jaz drives, ls120 drives, and dig
ital cameras on the SCSI and IDE buses. USB devices look
like SCSI devices to user space, so those are supported as
well, but are only added if they are currently attached to
the system (having a scsi device assigned to them is not
sufficient).
Devices which updfstab adds to /etc/fstab are marked with
the kudzu mount option to distinguish them from other
devices. updfstab will not remove devices from /etc/fstab
unless they are marked with the kudzu mount option. It
also ignores devices that are already listed in
/etc/fstab, or which have multiple partitions on the media
currently inserted.
OPTIONS
-n,--normalize
Normally, kudzu tries to touch /etc/fstab as little
as possible. When this option is given, it will
instead move all of the devices with the kudzu
mount option to the end of the file, and will list
the devices in the same order the internal probe
returns.
-t,--test
When this option is specified, updstab does not
update the /etc/fstab file. Instead, it displays
the fstab entries it would use to standard out. If
no changes need to be made, it outputs the string
(nothing to do) rather then a full filesystem
table.
FILES
/etc/fstab
BUGS
The table of devices to probe for is built into the exe
cutable; a configuration file should be used instead.
kudzu(1)
AUTHORS
Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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