Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

[Sjoerd Mullender]

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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