On Sun 28 Mar 2021 at 18:49:04 (-0400), songbird wrote: > David Wright wrote: > ... > > Perhaps man systemd.mount and its references might help. > > no help from those that makes sense to me. :( > > > I wasn't aware that *just* editing /etc/fstab would do this, > > but perhaps MATE has set a watch on the file? > > saving it kicks off a reload of it from systemd, but i'm > not sure where the actual configuration or lever is there to > turn this off. > > maybe gio/gconf/gsettings stuff which i hate almost as much > as MS registry editing. just a horrible interface and design > decision IMO. which is why i have spent so little time in the > past digging into it and why i don't know much about it even > now other than it is there and i hate it. haha... :) > > thanks, not sure i'm going to make any more headway on this > for the moment.
I can only make two further suggestions: Copy fstab to fstab.new and edit that, which allows frequent saves without side-effects. Then copy the new over the old when ready. If you're adding devices, include nofail in the options, in case you make a mistake. Cheers, David.
