Input for Disk Manager help document

[Gaer Boy]

Looks OK here.

[Jerry3904]

OK, will create the Doc under Advanced.

[Jerry3904]

Last question: do we need some cautionary statement?

[joany]

IIRC, applying File > Save does two things: 1) Saves the current DM settings, and 2) modifies /etc/fstab to incorporate those settings. I don't remember using File > History > Apply to make changes to /etc/fstab. Can someone verify if this is true?

I think the cautionary statement would be to not click "Save" unless you want to modify /etc/fstab.

[asqwerth]

I also recall just using "Save" to edit /etc/fstab.

Perhaps to be clearer to newcomers, the caution can be: 'do not click "Save" unless you want the current state of each partition (mounted or unmounted) as reflected in Disk Manager to be the default position upon each boot up.'

I'm not sure if a newcomer is likely to know what /etc/fstab is.

It's a great idea to have a help documents for DM, by the way.

[Gaer Boy]

IIRC, applying File > Save does two things: 1) Saves the current DM settings, and 2) modifies /etc/fstab to incorporate those settings. I don't remember using File > History > Apply to make changes to /etc/fstab. Can someone verify if this is true?

I think the cautionary statement would be to not click "Save" unless you want to modify /etc/fstab.

Yes, if you use File>History>Apply on an item in the history, fstab is reverted to those settings. It is equally simple to go back to the latest setting. One caution - the description of the changes between the selected and current versions are worded oddly - eg, "Removing /dev/sdb9".

[kmathern]

From what I'm seeing DM makes changes to the /etc/fstab file without using the "Save" function.

Just checking (or clearing) a checkbox in the "Enable" column causes it to immediately write changes to fstab.

[Gaer Boy]

From what I'm seeing DM makes changes to the /etc/fstab file without using the "Save" function.

Just checking (or clearing) a checkbox in the "Enable" column causes it to immediately write changes to fstab.

I thought I had checked that, and found it didn't happen. I will look again later, but I've purged DM to test the MX version.

[dolphin_oracle]

just checked...changes to fstab do indeed occur when the boxes are checked...no need to select save. the same is true when unchecking...the entry is removed from fstab.

[joany]

just checked...changes to fstab do indeed occur when the boxes are checked...no need to select save. the same is true when unchecking...the entry is removed from fstab.

So...

Maybe this should be a cautionary note: Don't leave Disk Manager unless you're sure all the right boxes are checked and all the right settings are applied.