On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 20:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
HI All,
Is there a GUI for settin up a new
drive in fstab? Or do we still need to
use to old one (vi)?
IMHO a GUI would be overkill. It's a text file with a clear structure.
Besides, you sometimes need to edit it when there's no window system
running, such as when rescuing a crashed system or logging into a
remote server.
poc
On 7/7/23 10:19, Roger Heflin wrote:
> Plus the gui would be useless unless it had all of the knowledge of
> all types of fses and what options were valid.
>
> And coding that into a fstab gui program correctly seems like a
> massive undertaking with all of the details. so it would likely be a
> mess.
>
> I saw a gui to manage /etc/groups years ago (pre-linux), it let you
> add duplicate groups (diff name, same id) but then it let you select
> only the 2nd name/id but deleted by id so deleted the first/wrong one
> and left the 2nd one. So with its simple design it was actually worse
> than useless.
>
"vi" it is then! :-)
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