THANKS!
Yes, I'm such a newbie that I missed that in the MAN pages.....Thank for the info and your patience!
Thanks,
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> Subject: RE: linux and fat32.
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> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Merenda, Frank wrote:
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> > I have been having problems writing to my windows fat32
> partition via
> Linux
> > for a while. I changed my fstab file to the lines below,
> and it works
> > beautifully now. Thanks!!! I have a question, though, what
> do the "1 0"
> mean
> > at the end of the line? I tried to look it up but couldn't find it
> anywhere.
> > All my other mounts have different numbers at the end. Thanks in
> advance!
> >
> > Next it's off to get my modem working... :)
>
> Here is some wisdom from the bowels of man fstab:
>
> The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems
> by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need
> to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value
> of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesys-
> tem does not need to be dumped.
>
> The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro-
> gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
> done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be speci-
> fied 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 pre-
> sent or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will
> assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
>
> I don't have dump nor it's man page. At a guess it's a backup program
> popular with some other *nices :-)
>
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