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fstab newbie
Name: herm Date: August 20, 2002 at 20:38:14 Pacific
Comment:
I think I have fstab configured correctly, but I don't have a good feeling about hda4. I have 4 partitions total. Here's how I want it hda1: 10mb swap hda2: 400mb ext2 (boot) hda3: 50mb swap hda4: 60mb ext2
Please don't comment that I should have it configured differently, I'd prefer the setup I have listed. So here is my edited fstab:
Name: Nevyn Date: August 20, 2002 at 21:16:07 Pacific
Reply:
The only problem I see here is that /dev/hda2 will be mounted on /, and then /dev/hda4 will be mounted on top of that. You won't be able to access that partition as it is setup now. You need to mount /dev/hda4 on a different mount point.
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Response Number 2
Name: herm Date: August 20, 2002 at 22:39:38 Pacific
Reply:
like mount hda3 on / and hda4 on /hd2 ?
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Response Number 3
Name: Nevyn Date: August 21, 2002 at 01:33:39 Pacific
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