Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I was under the impression (and no idea where I heard/read that now) >> that any partitions marked 0 0 on the end of the fstab line were >> mounted in 'single' mode. Is this not the case? I haven't used single >> with this FC2 install ever, no need to so far, so I don't know, but >> I'll find out the next time I reboot to it. > > Those numbers are the dump frequency and dump pass number, i.e. unused > by nearly everyone nowadays. They were there way back (nearly 30 years > ago) when they were actually used, but since hardly anybody uses > dump/restore anymore to make backups, those fields are not used anymore. > See the descriptions of fs_freq and fs_passno in the manual page for > fstab(5). > > (If you look at the manual for dump (if you have it installed), you can > see that dump uses dump levels. A dump at level n will dump everything > that changed since the last level m (m <= n) dump. The pass number > specifies which partitions can be dumped at the same time, first all > partitions with pass number 0, then all with pass number 1, etc.) > > > Oops. The level is for fsck (file system check), not dump. It's been a while. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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