fstab

[bmike101 at cox.net]

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
>
> <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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