Re: fstab question

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:39:58AM -0400, shane c branch wrote:
> I recently added a RAID array to my linux server. I modified /etc/fstab to
> include an entry for the new filesystem, and it starts automatically at boot
> time. So far everything seems to be working fine.
> 
> But I'm not sure if the last part of the entry is correct:
> 
> /dev/sdb2	/web	ext3	defaults	1 1
> 
> It's the '1 1' I'm not sure about. I just copied that from the entry for /. the
> entry for /boot has '1 2'.
> 
> So what does that indicate, and what value should I use for the /web
> filesystem? As the name implies, I plan to host web files there.
> 
> regards,
> 
> shane
The first number indicates wheter the filesystem should be dumped
when you use the dump command. The second indicates the order in
which you want fsck to be run on the filesystem.
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