What's wrong with this mount command? [SOLVED]

[mrodent]

There is an NTFS partition named "Shared". The directory /home/mike/Shared/ has been created... in fact a simpler mount command works OK

(as root:)

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~ # mount LABEL="Shared"  /home/mike/Shared/  ntfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=mike,group_id=mike,permissions,allow_other,noatime 0 2

response:
"Usage:..."

I am trying to mount this NTFS partition and then use the MySQL databases there. As per this answer at Stack Exchange.

As I say this works OK:

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~ # mount LABEL="Shared"  /home/mike/Shared/

In fact the "command" in this SE answer is meant to be a line in /etc/fstab. As mentioned in my comments there, I find that Linux won't then boot if I do that, so I'm trying to work out a) how to achieve the same thing "manually" and b) how then to include a suitably tweaked version of the line in fstab and get it to work.

The line as written there doesn't seem to correspond to the "usage" of the `mount` command.

[deepakdeshp]

To know about the commands

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man fstab 

.

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man mount

will give the man pages. Reading entries in fstab will give a good picture about the usage.
After making any changes in fstab run

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 sudo mount -a

which will act on any additions in fstab
The expected result and mounted devices can be checked with

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mount

command

[mrodent]

Thanks...

I seem to have got some way there. This works:

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mount -o rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=mike,group_id=mike,permissions,allow_other,noatime LABEL="Shared"  /home/mike/Shared/

... but I'm not sure what those two numbers are doing (" ...,noatime 0 2 ...") or how they should be incorporated. I'm sure examining those man pages will be good for me, and about to do that right now. As an out-of-his-depth newb trying to accomplish a thorny but essential step for my transition to Linux (share MySQL between W10 and Linux on a dual-boot, as described in the SE answer), it'd be nice to be just handed the answer ... !

[Mute Ant]

The numbers on the end... 0 2 ...are for when the line is part of fstab. They don't mean anything to the mount command.

[mrodent]

Great, thanks. You've helped me solve the "manual" mounting issue at least.

Well the bad news is that, in my quest then to get the MySQL server working, I'm still, even after mounting with all those options, getting the following when going "mysql -u root -p":

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

... whether I try this as "mike" (preceded by sudo) or as root.