Larry Evans wrote: > I commented out the lines specifying where my root filesystem > was located in fstab: > ... > then rebooted, and it worked ...
Yes. That is normal. > Since the root file system is specified in /boot/grub/menu.lst, I > guessing somehow etch got it from there and consequently didn't need > /etc/fstab to find the root filesystem. Is that right? Correct. The root filesystem itself is already mounted. It must be in order to get to /etc/fstab. > So what's actually needed in /etc/fstab? Also note that the last field is the order that the drives are checked by fsck. I believe (but did not check) that if you do not have an entry in /etc/fstab that the filesystem will not be fsck'd. Therefore you do want to keep all of the entries there. Other than that you need an entry for everything that you want to use. > I'm also getting entries in my computer icon on my desktop like: I don't use a window manager such as this, don't get those icons, and so have no idea what you are asking about here. I will leave this to someone else to answer. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
