On 08/19/2024 10:57 AM, Joe wrote:
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.
IMHO "tutorial" is a sub-set of "documentation".
And the "magic string" is "/etc/fstab" ;}
[I had modified the one on this machine. Whenever I modify a default
file, I *include comments* about *why*.]
