* Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
2006-09-17 13:36 [gentoo-user] FSTAB file rob
@ 2006-09-17 13:42 ` fire-eyes
2006-09-17 13:47 ` darren kirby
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From: fire-eyes @ 2006-09-17 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
rob wrote:
> What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the
> / dir a 1 0 ????
>
> rob
dump and pass. The fstab man page will explain it
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2006-09-17 13:36 [gentoo-user] FSTAB file rob
2006-09-17 13:42 ` fire-eyes
@ 2006-09-17 13:47 ` darren kirby
2006-09-17 13:49 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-09-18 8:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: darren kirby @ 2006-09-17 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw
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quoth the rob:
> What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the
> / dir a 1 0 ????
>
> rob
fs_freq and fs_passno
See man 5 fstab
Though '/' should be '0 1'. fs_freq is all but obsolete
-d
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* Re: [gentoo-user] FSTAB file
2006-09-17 13:36 [gentoo-user] FSTAB file rob
2006-09-17 13:42 ` fire-eyes
2006-09-17 13:47 ` darren kirby
@ 2006-09-17 13:49 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-09-18 8:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Daniel Iliev @ 2006-09-17 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
rob wrote:
> What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is the
> / dir a 1 0 ????
>
> rob
>
>From `man fstab`:
The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the
dump(8) command to determine
which filesystems need to be dumped. If the fifth field is not
present, a value of zero is
returned and dump will assume that the filesystem does not need
to be dumped.
The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to
determine the order in which
filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem
should be specified with a
fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno
of 2. Filesystems within a
drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different
drives will be checked at
the same time to utilize parallelism available in the
hardware. If the sixth field is not
present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume
that the filesystem does
not need to be checked.
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2006-09-17 13:36 [gentoo-user] FSTAB file rob
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2006-09-17 13:49 ` Daniel Iliev
@ 2006-09-18 8:33 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2006-09-18 8:33 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:36, rob wrote:
> What do the 2 zerros at the end of the line mean and why is
> the / dir a 1 0 ????
Not to be pedantic, but it's '0 1' for the / partition :-)
Others have referred you to the man pages that describe these
settings, but what isn't obvious is that these are for ext2/3
filesystems only. Field 5 is used by dump/restore which only
works on ext2/3.
If you use reiserfs, these fields must be '0 0' as reiser can do
the right thing at mount time by itself.
The same goes for all other filesystems (cdroms, tmpfs, udev,
etc etc)
alan
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