[CentOS] Do you need to reboot after adding an entry to fstab?

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:34 PM -0500 Robert Moskowitz 
<rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:

> man mount.davfs provides an entry in fstab for -t davfs.  Does simply
> adding this into fstab complete the task, or is a reboot needed?  (or
> some service restarted).

fstab is the list of mounts that will be done at boot, but you can manually 
invoke mount at any time with the same arguments supplied from a line in 
fstab.

As the others have stated, invoking mount with just the device name or the 
mount point is a good way to test your fstab entry, as mount will look in 
fstab if you don't supply all the arguments.