On Monday 03 April 2006 12:19, Sjoerd Mullender wrote: >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. I was thinking I'd recalled it in that context. Its not well clarified in the manpages IMP. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
