David A. Harding
Saturday, 12 Aug 2006
I encourage people to use, and become experts in, free software, and often that means tolerating newbies and not making fun of them (or telling them to RTFM). But I can't resist sharing this awesome conversation between my friend Marty and a newbie this evening in #ruslug (lightly edited, converted to paragraph format):
Newbie: I remember that I have a mount statement in my crontab... I forgot how to get to my crontab... could I edit the mount in my crontab?
Marty: I doubt that you mean crontab. fstab perhaps?
Newbie: Nah, I tried to edit my fstab but it didn't mount the way I wanted it to.... so I put it in cron and set it to run the mount statements everytime I boot... but I can't remember how to see my crontab.
Marty: Good gods. You really shouldn't be mounting things in your crontab.
Newbie: Feeling stupid right now... how do I get to my cron?
Marty:
crontab -eNewbie: Got it. Here's the statments I have:
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /media/winA -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 -w