/etc/fstab

Michael bmike1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 13:09:45 MST 2021


Thank you so much Matt. As fir the UEFI issue I'm just doing what LFS
recommends in the process of building their OS; and the same reason for the
reasoning behind the /opt and /usr/src filesystem debacle.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 3:40 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2021-08-20 11:48, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > Please, will this work?
>
> > LABEL=boot     /boot     ext4  defaults  0  0
> > LABEL=rootdir  /         ext4  defaults  1  1
> > LABEL=swap     swap      swap  pri=1     0  0
> > LABEL=home     /home     ext4  defaults  0  1
> > LABEL=opt      /opt      ext4  defaults  0  1
> > LABEL=usrsrc   /usr/src  ext4  defaults  0  0
> (snip, /proc et al are fine)
>
> This will probably work, but it's not 100% correct.  The fs_dump column
> is set to 1 for / , and you are probably not using dump.  The /
> filesystem should have an fs_passno of 1, while other filesystems that
> should be fscked at boot time should have an fs_passno of 2.  So you
> should change the 1s in /home and /opt to 2s.
>
> Also, are you not using UEFI?  I'm not sure how much longer the x86
> will continue supporting BIOS boots.  It also seems a bit odd to split
> /opt and /usr/src into separate filesystems.  I've only got 1.4G in /opt
> (almost all Android studio) and 3.1G in /usr/src , and I've got 2
> complete sets of kernel sources in the latter.  (Should get rid of the
> old one, it's not necessary any more.)
>
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