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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: remount a drive
what is the purpose of forking a mount? Maybe I misunderstand what they
mean by 'fork'.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Keith Smith <>
wrote:

>
> Yeah, looks like it reads the fstab only.
>
> mount -a [-t type] [-O optlist]
>
>     (usually given in a bootscript) causes all filesystems mentioned in
> fstab (of the proper type and/or having or not having the proper options)
> to be mounted as indicated, except for those whose line contains the noauto
> keyword. Adding the -F option will make mount fork, so that the filesystems
> are mounted simultaneously.

>
>    ...

>
>
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
>
>
> On 2015-12-11 07:49, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> I just tried 'mount -a' and that didn't do it.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Michael Havens <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> well.... I want to remount the drive w/o opening a terminal. I plug
>>> anexternal drive in and it appears in a filemanager. I then click
>>> the eject button and it umounts. I then realize I forgot to do
>>> something and I don't know what to do except to unplug and plug it
>>> back in or open the terminal and type 'mount -a' (thanks for
>>> teaching me that).
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Keith Smith
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Try this :
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Remount-etc-fstab-Without-Reboot-in-Linux
>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-10 19:32, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been wondering about this for awhile now; when you plug a
>>> device
>>> in a file manager opens and the device auto mounts (or it auto
>>> mounts
>>> and then the device manager opens). You do what you need to and
>>> then
>>> click the eject symbol next to said device and it unmounts. How do
>>> you
>>> mount it again without unplugging it again or opening a terminal?
>>>
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>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1]
>> http://www.shellhacks.com/en/HowTo-Remount-etc-fstab-Without-Reboot-in-Linux
>> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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