Ideas

[Karl Larsen]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>
> Mostly. The last two numbers should be 1 2. The / partition needs to 
> be mounted before the partition mount points off of /
>
> Example from my file.
>
> LABEL=/             /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/home         /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/boot         /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>
>  Jim
>
Thanks Jim. yes the numbers 1  2 look good. I need to read man fstab 
again. I have never understood the numbers. Now it is time.



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