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I have little experiences in configuring the 'fstab'. I'm looking for any GUI tool that helps me with this. If possible based on gtk and should be available in Debian.
kravemir
Posted 2011-10-14T15:07:45.747
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Is there any GUI tool to configure /etc/fstab?
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How about pysdm
Rohan Monga
Posted 2011-10-14T15:07:45.747
Reputation: 913
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The old kfstab was a good tool for this, but it's sadly bitrotten by now. There're fwfstab and gfstab as well, but they don't seem maintained. In the future I expect the excellent palimpsest will evolve the ability to actually edit fstab, then all will be well.
– phogg – 2011-10-14T18:45:03.9074It seems like this package has now been removed from Debian/Ubuntu as its out of date - doesn't support UUIDs for example. – frankster – 2013-06-28T10:06:10.423
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Now Gnome comes with a very powerful tool for this, Disks. (Formerly known as Palimpsest; it looks like phogg's prediction was accurate).
ternaryOperator
Posted 2011-10-14T15:07:45.747
Reputation: 401
1It's still just a string of obfuscated parameters, though. nosuid,nodev,nofail,compress=lzo... it needs checkboxes and dropdowns and explanations for what each of these options does. – endolith – 2016-10-12T04:01:17.657
4The command is sudo gnome-disks – knb – 2013-07-10T09:05:37.090
1@knb, you shouldn't use sudo. Only udisks2 runs as root. – Tobu – 2013-07-17T11:28:02.287
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I use gnome-disk-utility which provides the GUI tool 'Disks'
sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility
I'm using this in Linux Mint 17.3 (Ubuntu/Debian based) with cinnamon.
You also mention in a comment that you are not a gnome user, but you have not specified what you are using?
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Disks
nick fox
Posted 2011-10-14T15:07:45.747
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Clicking the gear icon for a particular partition in disks provides a menu option called 'Edit Mount Options'. Here in, set the Automatic Mount Options to 'OFF'. Thereafter proceed to define your custom mount point (for that you may wish to create your directory e.g. sudo mkdir /mnt/windows)
The comments=gvfs-show is key (don't forget to the comment= else it won't work in Ubuntu 14.04)
Changing the filesystem type from auto to the correct type (ntfs, ext4, xfs etc.) is also recommended.
norootsquash
Posted 2011-10-14T15:07:45.747
Reputation: 21
What distro? There are usually tools bundled with your distribution... – haimg – 2011-10-14T15:40:33.710
@haimg
Debian. I've edited it – kravemir – 2011-10-14T15:54:14.987