I'm very curious (and not entirely pleased) by how different /etc/fstab is in Fedora when compared to almost any other Linux distro I've used. For example, the following is a fairly complex /etc/fstab from an old version of SuSE: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump fsckorder# /dev/hda1 none swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 2 2 /dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 2 2 /dev/hda6 /tmp ext2 defaults 2 2 /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 2 2 /dev/hda8 /var ext2 defaults 2 2 /dev/hdc /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Now compare that to my current FC3 installation: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder2 auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 What's confusing to me here is that, in Fedora, I can't figure out which partition is mounted where. Is my / partition /dev/hda3, or /dev/hda5, or ??? Ditto for swap, or any other partition. If I wanted to make some change in the partition table (for example, adding a /home partition) I have no idea how I could get /etc/fstab to recognize it. I've tried making some sense out of fstab-sync, but so far it's pretty opague. Where does Fedora store the partition information? Anybody know some links that can explain this messy filesystem table? Thanks in advance, Robert
