On Mon 19 Aug 2024 at 16:23:31 (-0600), Tom Dial wrote: > On 8/19/24 05:19, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm over 80 and doing first "from scratch" install since Squeeze ;} > > Hardware is Lenovo R61 ThinkPad (64 bit). > > I multi boot [Grub will have at least three options]: > > 1. minimalist installation - primarily command line usage > > 2. 64 bit Debian with maximum features > > 3. 32 bit Debian - couple of applications require a 32 bit OS > > 4. other installs with strong project dependencies > > > > Today's question > > At boot time, what determines which physical partition gets mounted as a > > specific directory ( /, /home, swap, and so forth )? > > In most cases, mount actions are as described in /etc/fstab of the image > being booted.
AFAICT the /etc/fstab in the boot images of all my Debian systems is empty. It's only when the root filesystem gets mounted that a non-empty /etc/fstab becomes available. OTOH a netinst installer's image does have a populated /etc/fstab, but only with: devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 tmpfs /run tmpfs nosuid,size=10%,mode=755 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 Cheers, David.
