[Leaplist] fstab

Jim Hartley xjimh at cfl.rr.com
Wed May 28 22:15:29 EDT 2008


Just out of curiosity, did you use LVM on this install?

But they were already screwing around with stuff on Fedora 7, using 
something called "LABEL".

LABEL=/tmp              /                 ext3    defaults        1 1
tmpfs                   /dev/shm          tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts          devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys              sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc             proc    defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home             /home             ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/                 /other            ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=SWAP-hda7         swap              swap    defaults        0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap              swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda2         /home/linuxjim/winfat   vfat    user,rw         0 0
/dev/sda1         /home/linuxjim/winntfs  ntfs    user,rw         0 0

Why do they keep <sarcasm>improving</sarcasm> stuff? I suppose if things 
get TOO bad, I could try *BSD, but no way in Hell am I going back to 
Windoze!!!!

Maybe I should redo FSTAB the way it SHOULD be and hope the system still 
boots?

Jim Hartley

Phil Barnett wrote:
> So, I used to look at my fstab to figure out where I had mounted all those 
> partitions so when I reinstall I get them back where they belong.
> 
> Look how nice Fedora 8 left it for me.
> 
> # cat fstab
> UUID=c /                       ext3    defaul
> UUID=340a1958-06eb-4f5d-b1ff-13607fa60ac8 /usr                    ext3    
> defaul
> UUID=d905dd18-503c-4d4f-a92b-9ac79a744485 /usr/local              ext3    
> defaul
> UUID=337f07b7-e00b-4890-a557-c4c6e71c5ff5 /var                    ext3    
> defaul
> UUID=94c21234-6677-477e-acbb-200cbbce42c2 /tmp                    ext3    
> defaul
> UUID=da246920-b575-4e5f-80d2-b02eecad33f3 /home                   ext3    
> defaul
> UUID=a1cd2131-8439-4c90-ad72-2dddf4819c0a /boot                   ext3    
> defaul
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> UUID=8b4ac091-4fc2-42b5-b4cf-989275661f3c swap                    swap    
> defaul
> 
> 
> So, I now wonder if 82707eb7-6b3b-4140-90e2-6a31abb998d1 is /dev/hda1 or what?
> 
> Maybe I could install Windows...
> 

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