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
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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