On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 06:07:44PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > Can anyone explain why /home should be somewhere near the last entry, > presumably in /etc/fstab ? > > I am all set to repartition my HD and reinstall potato, and having > solved my problems with /usr and /usr/local (mounting order), would like > to know where /home should be placed (either in /etc/fstab or partition > wise towards the beginning or the end of the logical partition space).
There no real pressing need to do so. I just think perhaps it's better to mount all the "system" partitions before mounting the user data partitions in case something goes wrong. Really, it probably doesn't matter. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>