What is the purpose of the /etc/mtab file? What is the syntax for the entries in this file (especially the two concluding digits)? Thanks, Stephen S. Ashley - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
"Stephen S. Ashley" wrote:
What is the purpose of the /etc/mtab file?
What is the syntax for the entries in this file (especially the two concluding digits)?
Stephen, The mount table is constructed following the mounting of filesystems during initialization. /etc/mtab is generated at boot. The file to edit to effect these changes is /etc/fstab. The fields correspond to those seen in /etc/mtab. They are: 1 - the block special device or remote filesystem to be mounted (fs_spec) 2 - the mount point for the filesystem. For swap the mount point is given as swap (note: no preceeding slash). For the /proc psuedo-filesystem, the block device is given as none and its mount point is /proc. (fs_file) 3 - This filed is the filesystem type (fs_vfstype) 4 - these are the mount options; the list of options is formated as a comma-separated list (fs_mntops) 5 - this field is name fs_freq and is used by the dump command to determine which filesystems require dumping (fs_freq) 6 - this filed is the fs_passno, it specifies the order which file systems are checked at boot. / (the root filesystem) should have a value of 1 for this field and other filesystems a value of 2. A value of <null> in this field is considered to be a zero and that carries the implication that the filesystem does not require checking. (fs_passno) regards, Stu - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
"Stephen S. Ashley" wrote:
What is the purpose of the /etc/mtab file?
What is the syntax for the entries in this file (especially the two concluding digits)?
mtab tells you what drives are CURRENTLY mounted. fstab tells you what drives to automatically mount. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
<BR> <BR> <BR> Some how My boot diskett got hosed , and will not work. How do I reboot into Linux.<BR> <BR> I have it installd on a machine with win98 with the following<BR> <BR> linux/filesystem is mounted ontop of dos.<BR> Its installed on my second harddrive which is the secondary ide chenal set to primary<BR> Cdrom is set as slave to one of the chanels , iether primary or secondary , the other slave is used for the tape backup.<BR> <BR> I hgave no idea where to start , or what to copy to a floppy soi as to reboot. I would appreciate it if you would give specific instructions , as I am new to linux. I went into yast but foun nothing as far as creating a boot disk, and am unable to boot the sys form the harddrive , so as to start yast form the harddrive so it will see the configuration files. I realy don't want to reinstall linux from scrach , bill will do so as a last resort.<BR> <BR> Thanks<BR> <BR> Samy<BR> <BR> my linux is installled to d:linux.<BR> in my c:\loadlin dir is a file called susesave.mnu<BR> <BR> with the following<BR> <BIG>SSversion: string {"1"}<BR> SSdrive: string {"E:"}<BR> SSmem: string {"94208"}<BR> SSz_kernels: string {"1"}<BR> SSf_roots: string {"2"}<BR> SSdistribmode: string {"1"}<BR> SSbootmode: string {"1"}<BR> SSfloppy: string {"1"}<BR> SSkernelpar: string {""}<BR> </BIG> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
you'll need to use rawrite to write a new boot floppy. rawrite is in the /dosutils/rawrite directory on the SuSE CD the available boot images are in /disks on the SuSE CD
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