fstab

Gerard Snitselaar snits at snitselaar.org
Tue Feb 7 22:23:58 MST 2006


I know nothing about Mepis, but perhaps the man pages for
buildfstab or addfstab might explain what it is trying to
do. 

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:58:58 -0800
<bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:

> I <supposedly> have my home directories on their own partiton.....
> but I wonder if that is so considering that I ran out of disk space
> last week. I'm going to share my ftab with you and ask you how I
> would know if it is going to the /dev/hda4 or just /mnt/hda4 (is the
> home partition being used?) One more thing.... how do i  get it to be
> used?
> 
> /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
> /dev/sda1 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
> # Dynamic entries
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
> 
> This is my understanding of this fstab:
> /dev/hda2 is being mounted to root
> /dev/hda4 is being mounted to /mnt/hda4
> /dev/sda1 is my swap drive
> I have no clue about the next two lines.
> I think the #Dynamic entries are just the directories which can be
> mounted on-the-fly.
> 
> Is this understanding correct?
> 
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