Ideas

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    For many years my Fedora has been in one partition off the /. This 
>> list has convinced me that it makes real sense to put /boot and /home 
>> into their own partitions. Now I am thinking about doing that.
>>
>>    For /boot it needs no special connection to the main partition. It 
>> has all this in it's grub.conf and initrd files. All you need to do 
>> is retrain grub to goto the new partition. That is simple from a 
>> Rescue cd.
>>
>>    Now /home is different. It will be in a new partition and 
>> connected to the main F7 by /ect/fstab entry. Not sure what that will 
>> look like. Maybe like this if /home is in /dev/sda7 the entery in 
>> fstab would be:
>>
>> /dev/sda7         /home        ext3      defaults      0  0
>>
>>    Is any of this correct?
>
> The numbers at the end would normally be 1  2.
>
> The first is whether or not the filesystem should be dumped if you use 
> dump for backups, the 2nd is which pass to do fsck's when you boot up. 
> The / filesystem should be 1, everything else can be 2.  See man fstab 
> for more details.
>
Exactly. I have been reading man fstab and the "dump" was throwing me :-)

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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