Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb

[Gene Heskett]

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.
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