CentOS - Jan 2008 - Do you need to reboot after adding an entry to fstab?

man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs.  Does simply 
adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed?  (or 
some service restarted).

On Jan 17, 2008 11:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:
> man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs.  Does simply
> adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed?  (or
> some service restarted).
>
IIRC, as long as you have the proper fs module loaded, all you need to do is
mount the file system.

mhr
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On Jan 17, 2008 2:11 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 11:34 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:
> > man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs.  Does simply
> > adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed?  (or
> > some service restarted).
> >
> IIRC, as long as you have the proper fs module loaded, all you need to do
is
> mount the file system.
Maybe goes without saying, but 'mount -a' would be recommended as that
reads from fstab to perform the mount. We don't want any surprises on
our next boot do we?

--
Jeff

--On Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:34 PM -0500 Robert Moskowitz 
<rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs.  Does simply
> adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed?  (or
> some service restarted).
fstab is the list of mounts that will be done at boot, but you can manually 
invoke mount at any time with the same arguments supplied from a line in 
fstab.

As the others have stated, invoking mount with just the device name or the 
mount point is a good way to test your fstab entry, as mount will look in 
fstab if you don't supply all the arguments.