On Sunday 26 June 2005 02:56, Greg Wallace wrote:
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?
If you delete the file from /dev it wouldn't. But why would you do that? If you delete the entry from fstab, the system would still boot. The root device is only partially set in fstab, the crucial place where the root device is set is the kernel parameter root= which you can find in your boot loader configuration, probably /boot/grub/menu.lst But that doesn't mean it's a particularly good idea All other partitions other than root would fail to get mounted automatically on boot if you delete the entry from fstab
This is a pretty critical table for SuSE Linux (maybe any Linux), isn't it (or not)?
Yes, for all unix versions (although the name varies. e.g. in Solaris it's called vfstab)
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.
The fields are "white space" delimited, which means they can have any number of tabs and spaces between them (well, there may be a limit, but it's not something you'd run into if you keep it sane) Yes there is a format. It is described in the man page for fstab