Mepis i merely a derivitive of Debian On Tuesday 07 February 2006 10:23 pm, Gerard Snitselaar wrote: > 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 > > wrote: > > I 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? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss