On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com>wrote:
> ext3 should be ok for /boot. fsck will be run on *all* the > filesystems in fstab which are automounted and in need of an fsck. > Understood. Thanks. > > Thanks, I didn't know that file could do that! > No worries. I didn't know that file could be that either, until I stumbled upon it the other day myself while looking for way to get UUIDs for devices. > > Why not just use /dev/sda5 /boot ext3 ... and similarly for the > others ? I suppose that UUID will work once udev is running. For > the rootfs, the kernel will try to use whatever root= you passed on > the commandline from grub : here UUID will NOT work (we don't use an > initrd) - and what is shown in /etc/fstab for '/' is at best > documentation. > While reading the man page for fstab(5), I got the impression that using UUIDs was the preferred method of defining devices. Based on your advice, I'll use the /dev/sdaN notation instead. > > > I also think that /usr/src and /opt are wastes of filesystems : > This is my first time building LFS, so I followed the disk partitioning suggestions found here, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter02/creatingpartition.html. For the sake of not having to go back to re-partitioning my hard drive and rebuilding the user land utilities, I'll get on with the book using the current disk layout. I would consider using a different layout in future. > Thanks. Alexander.
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