Is fsck obsolet for journaling FS? - Was: How do I Automount [snip]

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Sonntag, den 29.11.2015, 20:30 +0100 schrieb Petter Adsen:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:46:36 +0100
> Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > also since this is relevant for the thread, please note that
> > technically /etc/fstab has not been necessary in years in ubuntu
> > (try
> > it, move it away and reboot, your system will be fine and properly
> > have mounted all fileystems) 
> 
> Using what mechanism? I now mount several NFS exports with fstab
> entries, if I were to (re)move fstab, how would they be mounted on
> the
> next boot? Even in the case of only local filesystems, how would the
> system know where to mount them?

lol, well, indeed if you have nfs mounts you will need fstab, i doubt
you can specify them any differently in an easy way and wouldnt suggest
you to remove it in that case ... for local filesystems you do not need
an fstab in place, i.e. it is fine to boot without one but the file
gets respected if it exists ...
(i guess there are some autofs tricks to handle nfs mounts without
fstab though)

> 
> Also, you said (in an earlier message):
> 
> > nowadays mtab is (or should be, i dont know if update-manager
> > already
> > switches it over on upgrades yet for all releases) a link
> > to /proc/mounts (until it hopefully goes away within the next year
> > or
> > two)
> 
> What goes away - mtab or /proc/mounts?

mtab indeed ... it is an ugly wart (dynamically created file at boot in
/etc ...)

ciao
	oli
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