Ideas
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 02:55:45 UTC 2007
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.
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Les Mikesell
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