Ah-ha!! So it's that simple! I see that was the main point of Jari's post, also.
I'll try this on Monday - if you don't here from me then the problem is solved.
Now I guess that must be written quite clearly in `man mount` somewhere, but I must have somehow missed it. I'll look again.
How I wish I'd posted here earlier instead of pulling my hair out and constructing wild theories! I suppose this was partly because the online examples I was looking at all seemed to only ever format in ext2.
I've been using linux for only about eight months.
Thanks again for your help and to Jari also. I have other newbie-ish questions also but I'll post these in their own threads.
Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In theory mount should read in all the options from
> this line from /etc/fstab, yes?
As long as you NOT specify a full commandline!
You must let out the mount-point or the Device, otherwise (i guess)
mount won't look into fstab.
With a full command-line in fstab a
mount /dev/fd0
or
mount /home/dsl/crypt1
is enough.
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