On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:53:19AM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote: > ok, i agree that argument. > ..but, this is my another concern, that mandrake distribution (?) violate > traditional unix/linux style of some things. why isn't here use a sixth > field of /etc/fstab file ? i cite from man page: > man 5 fstab > > The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the > order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root > filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems > should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked > sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same > time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field > is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume > that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
Humm that's a good point. Possibly it's a way to minimize support requests from newbies who don't know about it. *shrug* At first I thought the reiserfsprogs package came that way but it doesn't appear that way. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
