Philip Tellis wrote:
man mount search for remount don't be lazy
I went through it. It has many options and an important point was that when a mount command is given, it looks up the fstab and mounts it accordingly. So I have to simply give 'mount mount_point' or 'umount mount_point' as user. Another thing that initially got me confused was that even if the partition was unmounted, when I clicked on its desktop shortcut, it would show files as if it was mounted. After some investigation it was noticed that on clicking the icon, it was mounting the partition automatically. So the entire exercise was restricted to command line only and everything was correctly displayed.
To be doubly sure, the fstab entry was disabled with a '#' and the machine was rebooted. The partition was not mounted. Now the fstab entry was made active by removing the '#' (to simulate a fresh addition of the line) and as user I simply gave the command 'mount mount_point' and the partition was mounted.
So on final analysis:- First add the appropriate line in fstab as admin. Next, as user simply give the command 'mount mount_point'. The partition is mounted and ready to use. No reboot required. :)
Thanks,
Rony.
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