[Gllug] /etc/fstab entries

[Richard Jones]

>From fstab(5) manpage:

   The  fifth  field,  (fs_freq),  is  used  for  these filesystems by the
   dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need to be  dumped.   If
   the  fifth  field  is not present, a value of zero is returned and dump
   will assume that the filesystem does not need to be dumped.

   The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to  deter-
   mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time.  The
   root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of  1,  and  other
   filesystems  should  have a fs_passno of 2.  Filesystems within a drive
   will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives  will
   be  checked  at  the  same time to utilize parallelism available in the
   hardware.  If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value  of  zero
   is  returned  and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to
   be checked.

dump(8) itself is deprecated, so I'm guessing that fs_freq is no
longer used.  I set that field to '1' myself on local filesystems just
out of habit.

Rich.

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