File system mount order

[Colin Law]

On 17 December 2010 10:13, Rongcong Luo <luorongcong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a quite simple question, how can I specify the mount order of
> the partitions on startup?
>
> I've tried to edit fstab(5), put the /dev/sda11's line before the
> /dev/sda6's line. but according to /var/log/syslog file,  it turns out
> sda6 still has been mounted before sda11.
>
> More exactly, I find those partitions (except /) were mounted in
> random order on startup. Is this have any way to specify this order?

Can I ask why?

Colin