Home on separate drive

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 23 22:09:10 UTC 2008


On 04/23/2008 02:36 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> Courtesy of Nils when I wanted to do the same:
> 
> Oh, great - you still have that mail. I was about to write that stuff 
> again because I don't have it any more :)

That's the advantage of using the gmane.org nntp server for the list :-)

> 
>> >> > somedrivespec /home ext3 defaults 0 2
>> >
>> > somedrivespec /home ext3 defaults 0 0
>> > (/dev/sdb1  /home  ext3 defaults 0 0)
>> > worked. 0 2 gave me dmrc & no media errors.
> 
> That's interesting. According to the fstab man page it should be a 0 or 2 
> at the end. And for some of my disks the entry actually is 2 (probably I 
> had copied one of those entries for the original mail). Do you have a 
> special setup for that disk like LVM? Perhaps you can't fsck an LVM 
> volume?

Don't recall - I'd set up the computer for my mother-in-law's nurse. I
have to log into it later this week to check it anyway, so I can check then.

Gary





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