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I don't see the folders I expect from fstab

My Synology Shared Folders are available via NFS by an fstab mount, this used to work fine.

The intention was to add a new Synology server and add some lines to /etc/fstab to do this.

However using Terminal I accidentally edited /etc/fstab with the vi editor.

After this mistake I removed /etc/fstab file.

The command "sudo vifs" recreated the /etc/fstab file. so far so good.

In fstab I removed the "NasDownload" folder and added "Xdocuments" folder of my new NAS.

See attached screen shot of the "sudo vifs" file.

When I rebooted my iMac, I don't see the folders I expect from fstab.

Finder shows folders "NasDocuments" and "NasDownload", see below screen shot

Looks like something is wrong with fstab.

I also restored y iMac MacOS Ventura, but that did not help.

How do I fix this? Help is very much appreciated....

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 24, 2022 1:23 PM

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Posted on Nov 25, 2022 2:56 AM

I found that changes to fstab will eventually show in Finder, but NOT immediately.

Shared folders removed from the /etc/fstab file are not automatically deleted, you have to remove them by yourself.

So if you mess up the /etc/fstab file you can just remove it.

Creating a new /etc/fstab file will be done automatically when you execute the "sudo vifs" command.

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