Re-Mount /etc/fstab without Restarting
Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 08:05.
You have added new entry in your /etc/fstab file to mount a drive or partition. To mount those new partitions you would normally reboot your PC. There is a simple way which will Re-Mount the drives in your /etc/fstab file.
Run as root.
mount -a
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The above method remounts
The above method remounts all filesystems described in /etc/fstab.
Alternatively to remount only one, you could use
mount -o remount /
OR
mount -o remount /dev/sda1
The first one is preferred as you need not know the device name and number for the / partition.