is make-fstab unique to MX? [Solved]

[lonesomepoint]

I am exploring some other Debian-based distros, including Debian proper. In both of them, the system did not detect my hard drive partitions and write them into the fstab; I found the fstabs to be empty except for the root partition.

So I thought "fine" and tried to run make-fstab as I've done in MX, supposing that it wasn't anything other Debian-based distros don't have. I guess I was wrong, because both of them didn't recognize make-fstab either. Um...okay. Is make-fstab a tool that the MX team created? If not, why can't I use it in the other distros? I'm not sure I'm prepared to write my fstab manually.

[Stevo]

Seems that it's not in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suit ... make-fstab
seems to be custom-installed, not from an MX package:

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dpkg -S /usr/sbin/make-fstab

not found.

[old_guy]

Looks like a shell script. It is located at /usr/sbin/make-fstab.
Earl

[dolphin_oracle]

antix-libs.

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└─> dpkg-query -S make-fstab
antix-libs: /sbin/make-fstab

[twi]

Here it looks like it says that it is an MX feature:

In-house applications with available source
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Make-fstab contains the make-fstab script which is used for making the fstab file on every live boot and to do hotplugging (in antiX but not MX). it also creates the fstab for installed systems.

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/about/in-house ... le-source/

[lonesomepoint]

Follow-up: Based on learning here that make-fstab is just a shell script located in /usr/sbin, I copied it to another Debian-baased distro (Devuan, to be specific) to see if it I could indeed use make-fstab there. It works fine.

Wish the script were in wider use in the Debian family. It's a good tool.