[Gllug] Playing with /etc/fstab

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

I've recently acquired a copy of the installation disks for Mandrake 8.1 and am tempted to try it on my PC at home (currently running Mandrake 8.0). That machine has two disks - hda contains the root partition for Linux and the root partitions for Win98, hdb contains /home, /usr and various Windows data partitions.

hda is on a removable disk caddy - what I'd like to do is put an alternative disk in there, install Mandrake 8.1, and play with it for a while. If I like it, I'll do another install on a dual booting disk with a more thought out partioning scheme.

I'm assuming, based on what I've read, that if I can do this without affecting what's on hdb at all - if I don't tell it about any of the partitions on there, they'll be left out of /etc/fstab and just plain ignored.

Secondly, if I want to access, say, the old /home partition I could add an entry to /etc/fstab to say something like:

/dev/hdbX      /homeold     ext2     defaults 2 0

(I can't remember what section of hdb it's on - also I suspect I should know more about the defaults 1 1 bit... is there information somewhere that is a little less cryptic than man fstab?)

Do I sound like I'm on the path to knowledge or the road to ruin?

Wulf




wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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