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midnightlightning Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 79
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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: Sparc handbook fstab... |
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Is it just me or is the fstab example in the Sparc Handbook more than a little off? I realize it's based on the x86 documentation, but is it just a copy/paste? Earlier in the handbook when they go over partitioning your disk, the suggestion is to create partitions for '/', '/usr', '/var' and '/home'; '/boot' is not included there.
The handbook's fstab seems to come out like:
Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0 |
Wheras mine, which has a hard drive that's partitioned like the handbook suggested; I think my fstab should look like:
Code: | /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda4 /usr ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /var ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0 |
Since there's no '/boot' partition, and there's three additional partitions described in the partition map, and mounted to /mnt/gentoo by this point. Is this right? Or should the hda1 '/' partition be 'defaults,noatime 1 2' like the /boot partition rather than 'noatime 0 1'? If this is right, could someone with authority update that section of the Sparc handbook to be comparable to the drive partitioning we who are following the handbook did earlier?
Also, the default fstab example had instead of 'none' for the /proc and /dev/shm partitions 'proc' and 'shm' respectively. Should they stay that way, or change to 'none' as the fstab example gives in the handbook? _________________ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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midnightlightning Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 79
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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I found one other location of a '/boot' partition in the Sparc handbook: In the final Reboot step, the code snippit given is:
Code: | # exit
cdimage ~# cd
cdimage ~# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
cdimage ~# reboot |
But with my Sparc server, I think it should be:
Code: | # exit
livecd # cd
livecd # umount /mnt/gentoo/home /mnt/gentoo/var /mnt/gentoo/usr /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
livecd # reboot |
Agreed? If so, that's another section of the Sparc Handbook that could use some updating... _________________ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke |
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gust4voz Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 373 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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The handbook fstab is basically an example, it's not literal.
For example i'm using one big partition for / and that's it.
If you feel the example isn't accurate or whatever you can file a bug for the docs team to change it. _________________ Gustavo Zacarias
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