fwfstab
Saturday, 01 July 2006
fwfstab is a graphical file system table (fstab) editor, used to edit the /etc/fstab file. It lets users add, edit or remove new entries in a simple, straight-forward way. It is meant to make the task of editing the file system table easier without sacrificing flexibility.
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The current release of fwfstab is version 0.03 (Older releases can be found at the file archives).
Source tarball: fwfstab-0.03.tar.gz
Fedora 7 RPM package: fwfstab-0.03-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
Fedora 8 RPM package: fwfstab-0.03-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
Fedora 9 RPM package: fwfstab-0.03-1.fc9.noarch.rpm
SRPM package: fwfstab-0.03-1.fc9.src.rpm

Requirements

Requires:

  • pygtk, version 2 or better
  • libglade, version 2 or better
  • python version 2.4 or greater
  • [Build Requirement] automake, version 1.10 or better
  • [Build Requirement] gettext
  • [Build Requirement] intltool

 

For a full installation of requirements on RPM-based systems:

$ yum install pygtk2 pygtk2-libglade

Installation

Before we start

fwbackups in the Fedora repositories. If you use Fedora Core 5 or greater, a simple:
$     su -c "yum -y install fwfstab"
will install the newest version of fwbackups automatically. For Fedora versions that have reached their end of life, please rebuild the source RPM provided above to obtain the most recent version.

 

There are two installation types:

Source (tar.gz) installations
These are done by using the scripts provided in the installation. First, extract the files from the tar.gz archive and then run:
$     make && make install
RPM installations
This is the recommended installation. You'll need the .rpm file, and installation is as easy as:
$ rpm -Uhv fwfstab-0.03-*.noarch.rpm

Screenshots


Main Window
Mounting a drive
fwfstab with all the entries loaded

This drive was already mounted!

 

Edit Entry - Basic tab
Edit Entry - Options tab

Editing a fstab entry - fwfstab autodetects available

drives and partitions!

 

Editing a fstab entry - fwfstab allows for manual customization

with the Options entry bar

 
Mount Options
 

 fwfstab has a build-in description of all the

common mount options

 
 

Extra Notes

One can now use the menu entry ('fwfstab FSTab Editor') or type:
$ fwfstab
to run fwfstab.
 
If you think you have found a bug in fwfstab or need to request support, please use the bug tracker located at bugzilla.redhat.com (Product "Fedora", component "fwfstab")
 
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