UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i'm prepping for my midterm, which i will bomb. i am scurrying to finish reading the final chapter before i get down into the review.

however, i came across something in chapter 8 - "mounting file systems" that has me really confused.

the text says the following:

then it goes on to say,

now what's up with this... i thought it said that the "mount" command will mount everything in vfstab that has a yes in the mount at boot field. if this is the case, what's up with the "-l" which says that it will do the same.

maybe i'm not seeing something where it talks about "only the local file systems" .

can someone please explain the differences between using mountall with the -l and without the -l?

the same thing is said when talking about the umountall.

again with the -l command... what's the deal with -l? what makes the command different with and without this option?

-l means to limit the the action to the local filesystems, some entries in the /etc/vfstab file could be remotely mounting filesystems.

So mountall will mount local and remote filesystems setup in the /etc/vfstab file whilst mountall -l will only mount the local filesystems.

Could be you store the application databases on a remote server. By using the mountall -l on boot up the databases will not be there.

any clearer?

Mark

waterford crystal bro....

much much much obliged. especially for the example.