*- John Stevenson wrote about "fstab values (was Re: Permissions for vfat
mounted drive)"
> Hello....
>
> On a related matter, can anyone tell me what the numbers actually mean at the
> end of each line in the fstab descritpions
>
> I know that they are labelled <dump> and <pass> but what does that actually
> mean?
>
>From 'man 5 fstab'
The fifth field, (fs_freq), is used for these filesystems
by the dump(8) command to determine which filesystems need
to be dumped. If the fifth field is not present, a value
of zero is returned and dump will assume that the filesys
tem does not need to be dumped.
The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro
gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are
done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be speci
fied with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should
have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be
checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives
will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism
available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not pre
sent or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will
assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.
> What values should I be using ?? I have just coppied off others examples
> previously.
>
Unless you use dump to backup your system then set the dump field to 0.
For passno the above is pretty self explanatory.
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Brian
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