Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:36, rob wrote: What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 Not to be pedantic, but it's '0 1' for the / partition :-) Others have referred you to the man pages that describe these settings, but what isn't obvious is that these are for ext2/3 filesystems only. Field 5 is used by dump/restore which only works on ext2/3. If you use reiserfs, these fields must be '0 0' as reiser can do the right thing at mount time by itself. The same goes for all other filesystems (cdroms, tmpfs, udev, etc etc) alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] FSTAB file
What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
rob wrote: What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 rob dump and pass. The fstab man page will explain it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
rob wrote: What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 rob From `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 filesystem does not need to be dumped. 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. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
quoth the rob: What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the / dira1 0 rob fs_freq and fs_passno See man 5 fstab Though '/' should be '0 1'. fs_freq is all but obsolete -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list