Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 26 June 2005 02:56, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Saturday, June 25, 2005 @ 2005 10:54 AM, Anders Johansson wrote:
> >What does "childless" mean?
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> Thanks for the info.  I went into partitioner in YAST and this entry did
> not show up.  The only place that partition was referenced was in fstab. 
> There was entry in /dev for the partition at one time, but I had manually
> deleted it a day or two before (don't ask me why).  What would happen if I
> were to delete an entry out of fstab for, say, my root partition.  My
> system would not even boot at that point, isn't that right?  This is a
> pretty critical table for SuSE Linux (maybe any Linux), isn't it (or not)? 
> Is there a particular format for the entries in the table, or could they
> just be delimited by a single space and it still work?  Looks like right
> now they are tab delimited.

By the way, I'm still wondering what a "childless" partition is