Guest ruhrpottrider83 Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 hi i have several hard disks in removable frames. two of them i want to use as secondary slave(hdd) (of course alternatively) one of it has a fat32 and the other an ext2 file system on both are the partitions hdd1 that means of of them needs the /etc/fstab entry : /dev/hdd1 /mnt/name ext2 noauto, user 0 0 and the other /dev/hdd1/ /mnt/name2 fat noauto,user 0 0 is that to say that i always have to edit the /etc/fstab in order to use the other hard disk??? by the way, can anyone of you tell me what the 0 0 in the /etc/fstab entry means, i believe to found out that if instead there stands 1 2 , the system tries to mount this disk while booting , is that correct, but if it is so , then what means the noauto entry?? thanks a lot in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 I'll let someone else answer your removable drive question because I know there are other here that have them. This is from man fstab, in relation to the 0 0 The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped. The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter- mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 Also, you do not necessarily need to put this in fstab. Fstab is used for automatic mounting. Mount it manually after it is in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted April 13, 2003 Report Share Posted April 13, 2003 I suggest mounting them manually when you stick them in the machine. Maybe put a mount icon on the desktop for each one. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Another suggestion (albeit danagerous if you don't know what you are doing), is to use HardDrake to mount the drives... I use removeable trays and sometimes swap out the secondary drive for another. I rarely have problems with them. I've got a primary with 60 GB, split between /, /usr, /home, and a small Fat32 partition, and the secondary drive is all Windoze... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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