Hi, just read the cd install guide and noticed that something very usefull is missing in the /etc/fstab section. It doesn't mention how to setup multiple partitions on the same harddisk. I know that the major part is simply just copy-paste, except for the the device-name and mount-point of course. Here's what i mean: Your /etc/fstab taken from the cd install guide: # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 My /etc/fstab: # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,ro 0 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/hda4 /usr ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hdb1 /tmp ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hdb2 /var ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hdb3 /home ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hdb4 /opt ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 As you can see the differences are in the dump/pass(last) section, the thing is that when people have a lot of separate partitions for /tmp, /var, /home, /boot,etc. The precondition is that the / partition should already be mounted, otherwise those partitions cannot be mounted on the given mount-locations. Thus we tell the system this by putting 0 2 in the dump/pass section. Note#1: normally people will not run into weird situation if they only create/have the partitions you mention in the cd install guide. However when there exist more partitions on a harddisk, it will become a problem so it's probably a good idea to mention this to our rookies in the field. Note#2: i don't have a clue of how i should report this "bug" in the document, i mean on which document should i post this reaction to? The english(=original?) document or one of the others? Perhaps a guideline would be helpfull here.
I think we should be careful on adding more information on the install guide. It gets longer and longer that the beginners will not be happy with the document. Btw, i see your point. Yes, i think we need some more on this..
is there any other doc-dev interested on this?
It would probably be a good addition. Is this file in baselayout? //zhen
On second thought, is this really necessary? We could simply add a note saying to follow the format if they want to add more filesystems...
On second thought though, I think that the user can see the difference, considering that they had to partition their disc to begin with...
