On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:44:39 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> wrote:
> THANK YOU > > On 08/19/2024 07:02 AM, David wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 11:19, Richard Owlett <rowl...@access.net> > > wrote: > >> At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets > >> mounted as a specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and so forth )? > >> > >> Please reference documentation as reading it will remind me of how > >> and why I chose specific options. > > > > man 5 fstab > > "fstab" was one of the keywords I'd forgotten. > > > > > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.config-misc.html#sect.fstab-mount-points > > > > Browsing that link suggests it will prompt me to ask needed questions. > It's not the document I was visualizing. I was expecting something > that I would have been reading when new to Linux. Then what you want is not documentation but tutorials. You want documentation when you know something you need to do but not the exact details of how. Many man pages are rather short on examples, which tutorials will provide. Try Google with: linux directory mounting on boot tutorial This will turn up a lot of similar but not identical sites, varying from a bald list of instructions to do a particular thing, to an explanation of fundamentals. Some won't mean much to you, ignore them and move on. The first step is probably to look at /etc/fstab on a working system and see what you can understand of it, and what you don't understand. That's certainly where partitions are named, along with filesystem directories and the mapping between them. The documentation is where you find what the mounting parameters mean and do. Apart from fstab itself, you'll need the man pages for the mount commands for whatever filesystem types are named in fstab e.g. mount.cifs, as many parameters are specific to the filesystem type. -- Joe
