Gui for fstab?

[ToddAndMargo]

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)?

Many thanks,
-T

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[Felix Miata]

ToddAndMargo composed on 2023-07-06 20:39 (UTC-0700):

>  Is there a GUI for settin up a new
>  drive in fstab?  Or do we still need to
>  use to old one (vi)? 
Any plain text editor with superuser permission can edit /etc/fstab, including
adding new entries.
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[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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

[Roger Heflin]

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.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; 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
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[ToddAndMargo]

>  On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:16 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
>  <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; 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!  :-)

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 12:39 AM ToddAndMargo via users <
users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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)?
>  
Gnome Disk Utility, aka Disks.  Select a storage device and you can add or
remove partitions.

Disks displays the  partition layout.  Under that panel is a "gear' that
leads t a menu where you can
add or remove partitions, format partitions, or "Edit Mount options" (e.g.,
fstab).



>  Many thanks,
>  -T
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