Documentation: fstab

[hasse69]

Explaination how to add rar2fs to fstab:

create /sbin/mount.rar2fs:
#!/bin/bash
OPTIONS="`echo $* |  sed 's/,--/ --/g'`"
sudo rar2fs --seek-length=1 $OPTIONS

In fstab:
/mnt/files    /mnt/rar    rar2fs    ro,noatime,--seek-length=1      0       0

Original issue reported on code.google.com by irbanur on 2011-06-21

[hasse69]

Ooops!

it should read:
sudo rar2fs $OPTIONS

Original issue reported on code.google.com by irbanur on 2011-06-21 23:24:21

[hasse69]

Interesting post. But what about that sudo business?
I think this is how it should be done
http://www.debuntu.org/2006/04/27/39-mounting-a-fuse-filesystem-form-etcfstab

Remember, if you mount your fs as root you need to use -oallow_other to allow for normals
users to access the mount point. A proper fuse installation should allow mounting from
non-root users.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.beckerus on 2011-06-22 06:38:30

[hasse69]

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.beckerus on 2011-06-22 06:43:41

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[hasse69]

Using "normal" fuse-mount you can't (AFAIK) pass rar2fs parameters in fstab.
rar2fs#/mnt/files /mnt/rar ro,noatime,--seek-length=1 0 0
doesn't work. either does ro,noatime,seek-length=1. Hence the sed command.

I can't remember why I'm using sudo; might be because of one of my own special cases
for my system at home, so it can most probably be omitted.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by irbanur on 2011-06-22 11:05:01

[hasse69]

Have you tried the afuse utility for auto-mounting FUSE file systems when mount points
are accessed ? Maybe it is not what you want though.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.beckerus on 2011-08-25 06:23:12

[hasse69]

Here is an update to this issue.

The latest version of rar2fs has an updated argument parser. The new parser makes sure
options are treated in the same way as native fuse options. For fuse the following
two examples are both valid and will start fuse in the foreground:

  a) rar2fs -f x y -o ro
  b) rar2fs x y -o ro,-f

That means that mounting fuse through /etc/fstab is possible, still when providing
non-standard mount options. This is now also the case for the 'longopts' as defined
by rar2fs.

The below is thus syntactically correct and will properly mount from /etc/fstab and
setting seek length to 2.

  rar2fs#/mnt/files /mnt/rar fuse ro,noatime,--seek-length=2 0 0

All this provided of course that fuse is correctly installed and there is a '/sbin/mount.fuse'
and 'fusermount' utility available. Also rar2fs must be accessible through the systems
path.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.beckerus on 2012-01-09 20:37:48

[hasse69]

 Case closed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hans.beckerus on 2013-01-26 15:19:41