Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it finds, even though that partition,

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101221_040215, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101221_031624, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Rick Thomas schrieb: 2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option (default) of preserving the UUID. This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap, for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com, Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? $ ls /dev/disk by-id by-label by-path by-uuid $ uname -a

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:19:08 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? $ ls -log /dev/disk/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 1240 Dec 16 11:26

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:51:28 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20101218221908.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com, Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you

Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while... The Debian Installer insists on

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: /dev is a pseudo file system created by udev. Under ordinary conditions, no data in it persists across reboots. I suspect that udev does not create a /dev/by-label directory unless it detects a disk partition with a label during boot. Perhaps none of Bob's partitions

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? If you have not label defined for any volume, the node won't be automatically created. Ah... I see. I learned something new

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer in Squeeze contains the following comment lines: # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices #

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: What is 'vol_id' ? That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id --uuid try running blkid. man blkid That brings up a

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: What is 'vol_id' ? That is the old way. It was superseded by 'blkid'. That comment must have been left behind and not updated. Instead of running vol_id --uuid try running blkid. man blkid That brings up a

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: ls -log /dev/disk/by-uuid and /dev/disk/by-label. Of course. Thanks! /dev/disk/by-label ?? What kernel are you running? $ ls -log /dev/disk/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 1240 Dec 16 11:26 by-id drwxr-xr-x 2 380 Dec 16 11:26 by-path drwxr-xr-x 2

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: The /etc/fstab that is installed by the Debian installer in Squeeze contains the following comment lines: # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even

Re: question about /etc/fstab

2005-12-10 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Samedi 10 Décembre 2005 11:49, maha jun a écrit : respected sir, i want to know a answer of these question.pls send me a answer to these question. -1) Each entry in the /etc/fstab is made of the same fields. Explain each of the fields. - 2)When is this file read? - 3)How

Re: question about /etc/fstab

2005-12-10 Thread Björn Lindström
maha jun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Each entry in the /etc/fstab is made of the same fields. Explain each of the fields. 2) When is this file read? 3) How would you specify that a particular file system should be mounted at boot time? The command 'man 5 fstab' will answer all these

RE: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread Frock
Try 'man fstab', it explains all of the fields in /etc/fstab /Frock -- Software is like sex,its better when its free - Linus Torvalds -Original Message- From: Alex Kwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4. august 1998 17:00 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Question of

Re: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread David Z. Maze
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AK would someone told me what is the meaning of: AK 1)defaults00 AK 2)defaults11 AK 3)defaults10 AK 4)ro 00 mount options/dump/fsck See mount(8) for information on what can go in the mount

Re: Question of /etc/fstab

1998-08-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AK == Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [fstab] AK would someone told me what is the meaning of: AK 1)defaults00 AK 2)defaults11 AK 3)defaults10 AK 4)ro 00 Please read the description with man fstab It later refers to man mount (for