Guess it is time to hit the source code.
The mission critical entries in /etc/fstab go first. If the system is truly depended on a partition, it is within the first four partitions /,/boot,swap,and an 'other'.
All user installations' partitions use a / entry, and most of them have a swap partition unless it is an embedded system. Most conventional installations have access to a alien partition.
Thats seems most obvious.
Adam
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From: Shriramana Sharma
Subj: [SLE] Order of items in /etc/fstab
Date: Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:19 pm
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
I search Google a bit for this, but could find no authoritative
documents to my satisfaction, so I appeal to the authority of the
list.
Is there any fixed set of rules that determines what order the entries
of /etc/fstab should be in?
Is it okay if /foo/bar is mounted as /tea/cup before /foo is mounted as /coffee?
Is it okay if /foo is mounted as /tea/cup before /koo is mounted as /tea?
Other such superficially-conflict-looking examples?
Thanks for your patience.
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