confusing /etc/fstab
Robert Storey
y2kbug at ms25.hinet.net
Mon Jan 31 13:29:37 UTC 2005
I'm very curious (and not entirely pleased) by how different /etc/fstab
is in Fedora when compared to almost any other Linux distro I've used.
For example, the following is a fairly complex /etc/fstab from an old
version of SuSE:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump fsckorder#
/dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 2 2
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 2 2
/dev/hda6 /tmp ext2 defaults 2 2
/dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 2 2
/dev/hda8 /var ext2 defaults 2 2
/dev/hdc /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
Now compare that to my current FC3 installation:
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults
1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults
0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto
pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder2 auto
pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
What's confusing to me here is that, in Fedora, I can't figure out which
partition is mounted where. Is my / partition /dev/hda3, or /dev/hda5,
or ??? Ditto for swap, or any other partition. If I wanted to make
some change in the partition table (for example, adding a /home
partition) I have no idea how I could get /etc/fstab to recognize it.
I've tried making some sense out of fstab-sync, but so far it's pretty
opague. Where does Fedora store the partition information? Anybody know
some links that can explain this messy filesystem table?
Thanks in advance,
Robert
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