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tcruicksh
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 Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:25 am Post subject: finallly got gentoo booted on it's own..question about fstab |
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I would like to know what options you guys have used when mounting your linux partitions?
I'm using ext3 for all my partitions.
for mount options right now i just have "defaults"
i used to have more but on boot up, linux was giving me some grief. |
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There's no point using defaults on /boot, as you probably don't want it mounted each time you boot. Set it to noauto and do the rest of the options yourself, and just mount it when you need to copy a new kernel image across to it or edit grub.conf or whatever.
Options for fstab are the mount options, which can be read about in man mount.
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tcruicksh
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| vonhelmet wrote: | There's no point using defaults on /boot, as you probably don't want it mounted each time you boot. Set it to noauto and do the rest of the options yourself, and just mount it when you need to copy a new kernel image across to it or edit grub.conf or whatever.
Options for fstab are the mount options, which can be read about in man mount. |
Actually...I don't have /boot as as seperate partition...
I have
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/home
/var
/usr
/shared (file server)
what exactly does "noauto" do? Been trying to figure that out |
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vonhelmet
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| tcruicksh wrote: | | vonhelmet wrote: | There's no point using defaults on /boot, as you probably don't want it mounted each time you boot. Set it to noauto and do the rest of the options yourself, and just mount it when you need to copy a new kernel image across to it or edit grub.conf or whatever.
Options for fstab are the mount options, which can be read about in man mount. |
Actually...I don't have /boot as as seperate partition...
I have
/
/home
/var
/usr
/shared (file server)
what exactly does "noauto" do? Been trying to figure that out |
Auto mounts the partition at boot time. Noauto doesn't. Auto is part of the defaults set.
If you don't have boot separately then it doesn't make a difference, but if you do - as a lot of people do - then you should probably set it to noauto.
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tcruicksh
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| vonhelmet wrote: | | tcruicksh wrote: | | vonhelmet wrote: | There's no point using defaults on /boot, as you probably don't want it mounted each time you boot. Set it to noauto and do the rest of the options yourself, and just mount it when you need to copy a new kernel image across to it or edit grub.conf or whatever.
Options for fstab are the mount options, which can be read about in man mount. |
Actually...I don't have /boot as as seperate partition...
I have
/
/home
/var
/usr
/shared (file server)
what exactly does "noauto" do? Been trying to figure that out |
Auto mounts the partition at boot time. Noauto doesn't. Auto is part of the defaults set.
If you don't have boot separately then it doesn't make a difference, but if you do - as a lot of people do - then you should probably set it to noauto. |
only reason why i don't have /boot as a seperate partition was because I didn't feel like changing around partitions which had already been created earlier when I had a different linux distro on there.
Not saying /boot is bad.... |
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