Scribbling feverishly on January 18, dep managed to emit: > On Friday 18 January 2002 05:32, Kurt Wall wrote: > > | > Can I change them using fstab settings? > | > | No. > > well, um, yes and no. going back to ext2 requires editing /etc/fstab, > does it not? and on some systems (i'm thinking suse 7.3 here), in
Yes, you have to edit /etc/fstab, too. But, changing the FS from ext3 to ext2 is not accomplished simply by editing /etc/fstab, which is how I understood the question. > addition to getting the repaired mk_inittab script from suse, one > needs to set up fstab such that / is ext3, but additional partitions > may be set to "auto." (in suse, for reasons not yet translated from > the german, setting / to "auto" boots it as ext2, while on subsequent > partitions if the setting is ext3, they're usually not mounted at > all, though you can do it by hand after the machine is booted. and if > that makes it seem that suse 7.3 is a fundamentally good distribution > cloaked in a cloud of configurational fog -- well, i have no argument > to the contrary.) I'll leave it to others to fight this partiular religious war. I have no opinion on SuSE. [...] Kurt -- You need more time; and you probably always will. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
