Steve wrote:
I'm still left with many questions that I think are not so easy to answer.
What overwrote my fstab file in the first place?
No idea
Why did it get overwritten without any notification?
No idea.
Why did whatever overwrote it decide for me that my Windows
partition should be removed?
It doesn't like Windows? :)
Why does mount report that a filesystem is of type fuseblk when
the type requested was ntfs-3g?
If I remember correctly, NTFS-3G works in user
space, and uses FUSE
to do the mounting.
Why is there no mention of type fuseblk in the mount man page or
in the fstab man page?man mount?
There should probable be a see also pointing to
FUSE. But there
doesn't seem to be a fuse man page. You may want to read the
documentation in /usr/share/doc/fuse-2.7.4.
Why does mount report "permission denied" instead of
something
like "bad type" when it gets an incorrect type?
The error message is most likely generated by the mount.fuse helper
application. It really should be improved. I am used to seeing it
when rpm is checking for free space, and it tries to read my
fuse-mounted encrypted directory. It is possible to mount file
systems using fuse that root cannot access.
Mikkel
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