On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM, <rhubarb...@poetworld.net> wrote: > > Is there a disadvantage of using auto for file system type in the > /etc/fstab file? I have three non-swap partitions. Why not list them > all as auto?
I don't really know the answer to your question but if it's of interest then here is how I set up 3 swap partitions on one of my machines at home: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/md5 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdc2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,users 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 /dev/md11 /virdata ext3 auto 0 0 /dev/md6 /backups ext3 auto,rw,users 0 0 /dev/sdf1 /mnt/WinMount vfat noauto,rw,users 0 0 This machine is sort of weird in that I'm not very RAID experienced. sda5/sdb5/sdc5 are RAID1 assembled as md5 The boot partition is not RAID. I just put the kernel on all 3 partitions but only called out sda1 here. sdb1 & sdc1 have the kernel also. If the boot partition goes down I'll chroot into the RAID and fix grub from there. sda2/sdb2/sdc2 are all 4GB swap partitions giving me 12GB swap. top shows 12GB memory, 12GB swap and 12 processors: top - 15:50:03 up 7 min, 3 users, load average: 0.78, 0.46, 0.20 Tasks: 223 total, 1 running, 222 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 1.0%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 29.9%id, 67.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 1.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.7%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 0.7%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.7%id, 1.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu8 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.2%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu9 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu10 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu11 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 12303144k total, 529176k used, 11773968k free, 16428k buffers Swap: 12602976k total, 0k used, 12602976k free, 217544k cached 529MB to run KDE. Same machine uses over 1GB to run Win 7. Hope this helps, Mark -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
