On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:10 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:03 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order > > partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as > > software needs it there immediately. So change the root and /var pass > > values to 0 and all should be well. > > I don't know if it might be used to define what order they are mounted > in, but I believe the official use it what order to fsck partitions > in. / should be 1 and other partitions should be > 1 or 0 if you don't > want them checked. > > >From the man page; > > 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. > > > hads > I thought it was both, but am happy to stand/sit corrected (:
Cheers, Steve. -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
