How does one clean a messy fstab ?

[Neil]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux
<i-ubux at synass.net> wrote:
>
>  On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 07:43 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>  > SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
>  > > Currently I need your assistance / help how to clean my fstab best and
>  > > easiest:
>  > > Lucky, the system starts and runs and seems not to have any acute
>  > > problems. ;-)
>  >
>  > Hmm, I don't understand, what your problem with your fstab really is. If
>  > the system runs as it should, what is wrong?
>  > Nils
>
>
>  Hi Nils,
>  Thanks for your concerns ! ;-)
>
>  After a week plus a weekend with very intensive experiments with my
>  partitioning and many re-considerations how to prepare my future
>  Multi-OS-Setup I have some minor differences in my blkid / fstab /
>  drives & mounts with FAT & NTFS drives.
>
>  I know I can set these /dev/sdax ...
>  ... but I would like to have these setup properly with their respective
>  UUID's ;-))
>
>  On the other hand I also learnt something important and interesting
>  about the sequencing of these multiple OS partitions: Adding or deleting
>  some partitions change the "relative" pointer to their partitions and it
>  will not start properly anymore if I forget to change menu.lst and/or
>  fstab !?
>
>  So for now I wanted to find out the best, correct and easiest way to
>  adjust, clean / clear/maintain these important system files (menu.lst,
>  fstab etc !?) resp to find out which of them are changed properly
>  dynamic from system and which ones need manual adjustments !?
>
>  Just to learn & find out this cycle of relations. ;-D
>
>  Cheers, svobi
>

Could you please post your fstab, then we could see what can be
changed (optimised/cleaned) and tell you what to do if you add a drive
and / or change your partitioning.

Usually, even in a multiboot environment, the partitioner will see all
the available partitions and can help you write fstab and create
partitions. This means you shouldn't need to see fstab, ever. Windoze
will recognise your new partitions if they are Fat32 (not Reiser, XFS,
Ext, NFS or most others. Just Fat and NTFS)

However if you prefer to do things manually you can, and I and a few
with me will help you to the extend of our knowledge.

Neil
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