Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
Sjoerd Mullender
sjoerd at acm.org
Mon Apr 3 16:19:14 UTC 2006
Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> I was under the impression (and no idea where I heard/read that now)
>> that any partitions marked 0 0 on the end of the fstab line were
>> mounted in 'single' mode. Is this not the case? I haven't used single
>> with this FC2 install ever, no need to so far, so I don't know, but
>> I'll find out the next time I reboot to it.
>
> Those numbers are the dump frequency and dump pass number, i.e. unused
> by nearly everyone nowadays. They were there way back (nearly 30 years
> ago) when they were actually used, but since hardly anybody uses
> dump/restore anymore to make backups, those fields are not used anymore.
> See the descriptions of fs_freq and fs_passno in the manual page for
> fstab(5).
>
> (If you look at the manual for dump (if you have it installed), you can
> see that dump uses dump levels. A dump at level n will dump everything
> that changed since the last level m (m <= n) dump. The pass number
> specifies which partitions can be dumped at the same time, first all
> partitions with pass number 0, then all with pass number 1, etc.)
>
>
>
Oops. The level is for fsck (file system check), not dump. It's been a
while.
--
Sjoerd Mullender
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